I've Cracked It!

Y'all know that I'm a pondersome sort and the other night I was pondering reincarnation.

It's one of those subjects I wander back to think on every so often like death or the origin of the universe. Subjects I'll probably never have a straight answer for and don't expect to, the things that make up individual faith.

Well, I don't recall ever deciding to believe in reincarnation. I've just always accepted it as a probability. I do remember my mom talking about ghosts and my dad philosophizing about death and souls and reincarnation, so I probably got indoctrinated from a young age without realizing it. People talk about being a romantic and I suppose believing that love transcends life, death, and time, reincarnation seems to go hand-in-hand with that too.

Anyways, I used to think that every person on earth had to receive a soul from someone that had died before them, one for one. I pondered that for a while and tried to figure out where the extra souls came from. I decided that the most tormented people and the most evil people on earth were miserable like that because they were being torn apart to make more souls. It was a destructive, painful process to create more souls as our populations increased.

This conclusion worked for me for a while, until the other night when reincarnation came up for me again and I pondered away on it in bed before sleep.

This is what I came up with.

We've never had a soul deficiency and we never will. Souls aren't created from a negative, painful, or angry source, they're made out of love. What packs the most loving power? Creation. And by creation, I mean conception. Where am I going with this? You guessed it, OVUM!

Women are born with all the eggs they'll ever have and the majority of those eggs go unfertilized. Thus, reserve souls. We've been exponentially creating souls without even realizing it! It totally solves my supply issue!

It's an miracle whenever a baby is conceived and all that cosmic energy pouring in to those rapidly replicating cells whips up new souls for the next generation. Sure, every soul gets recycled when someone dies but the reserve souls keep the system running.

Call me crazy, but it works for me.