Alot of Africans especially Nigerian believe in reincarnation, at a point I was convinced too, I was given her name, I took her stature and character. Out of the 7 living children of my parents everyone took my parents dominant genes with height and fair skin color I have crossed over to picked my grandparents gene, remained short like them (my paternal grandparents).
Hence my grandmas height and physique robbed on me. Even though that woman died two months before I was born I took fair portion of her wisdom and could talk like an elderly person at a tender age.
There is a combination of genetics from science here but they are blind to this and the reality on ground is giving them what to believe in.
These things looks so real that My dad gives me some level of respect as his mother reincarnated 😂😂😂, often times he doesn't joke with the words I speak.
The funniest part was usually when I get sick as a child, they prepare delicacies and use it to appease the spirit of the old woman in me. Not to be sick but to enjoy the present life she is living now if she didn't do that in her previous life.
I enjoyed special treatment because of that word "reincarnation".
Okay, my mum died too and the next pregnant woman in the family said she appeared to her in her dreams meaning that the baby that was birthed was my mum incarnated, the child is named after my mum but I am yet to see her to confirm this....
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Moving on I got I became a believer and less of their African Traditional religion. Added some level of education and have now chosen to live the life I want to live, not with the sense of realization or possibility of someone living inside of me.
And to give a more direct answer the prompt. I love and cherish the life I am living now but it can be improved upon.
What if I wish for a different life and it turns out to be something I cannot handle.
Okay I wish to be born in a different country and upon getting there I can't handle their weather or natural disaster, African has experienced lesser of this compared to other places . The shock of experience an earthquake somewhere can kill faster than the earthquake itself. It seems that fate has giving us only the burdens we can bear at the different places we have been born.
Let me be born in Nigeria again but let the conditions be improved on.
But Peradventure I chose to be born in another country please let my mindset, abilities, character and everything be in line with people from there so I can fit in and relate properly.
And now to gender, I know what it feels like to be a woman but if I chose to come back as a man that will mostly be for adventures sake, to taste the both side of gender.
I believe that graces were giving to us to be who we are in our sexes and to endure whatever that comes from been a male or female.
If I want to come as a male let me have the attributes of a males, it won't be fair to have a male physique with a woman's mindset.
Been a male with the reality of a female mindset inside anyone can be a disaster.
Have you seen the men they call "women wrappers" they are suffering such fate. Carrying a mans body and acting like a woman. 😊
To wrap this up i can't really if i want to change anything about me in my next life.
Just give me the grace needed to operate in whatever form I come.
Even though the conditions i find myself in this present life isn't what I desire, it can be improved upon like I have said.
A healthy and quality life plus the privileged to find fulfilment will be a perfect blessing.
Shout out to everyone trying to be like dogs and other animals I have seen on the internet, including the ones marrying crocodile and also spending millions to get the animal body they desire. I hope that they find whatever it is they are looking for. 😀😂😂😀😆