The Reincarnation of a Stubborn Soul

SECOND PLACE in The Dialogue 500 Contest by ~j ,  November 2010

FEATURED in The Writing.Com Newsletter - Short Stories: Dialogue as a Story Medium - Editor's Picks, April 6, 2011

"It's time. Your time has come."

"For what?"

"To reincarnate! It's what all of us are waiting for! That's why you are here."

"Why? I'm happy the way I am, right here. I like it the way it is."

"The time has come..."

"Why?"

"There are laws. It's the natural process. It's all written."

"I'm happy here. It's calm and quiet."

"But here... you are doing nothing. You just "are.” You need to “be.”

"I know."

"Don't you want to go back... again?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Oh, leave me alone."

"I can't. I was told to take you to the Departure Tunnel."

"I don't want to. I want to sit here, under this willow tree.”

"Listen... you know the rules!"

"No. I can't... not yet.”

"Listen, you know better. You know that your destiny, your choices and your options aren't totally free until you are en-souled. You are only free when you reincarnate all those lives. You know this by heart. You are being stubborn."

"Yes."

"Again, I repeat: your time has come."

"Go away."

"I will call the Supreme Spiritual Guides..."

"I don't care... but, aren't you one of them?"

"No. Yes. Well, no. I'm from a different realm. I have a different job. I collect souls for the next... life. You should be happy!"

"Happy? Me? Going back, again? Once was enough. Look at me. I'm older, wiser and experienced. Look at my grayish hair. Doesn't that tell you anything?"

"No. Not to me, not to us. This is your outside. Here, we are interested in the inside of the soul. Be reasonable."

"Hey! You don't know me... my existence, my experiences. The time I lived; what I did. I need to stay longer."

"You can't."

"Why can't I stay a little longer? I need this endless time."

"If only you knew...  Here’s one example: there are thousands of mothers... all waiting for a soul like yours."

"Oh... I always forget about this."

"What happened to you... there?"

"It was bad."

"But we don't go there for it to be... good. You know that."

“I was taught… to do bad things."

"You had your Free Will, you know. You could have chosen to be... good."

"Sometimes... it's easier to be bad. You don't need to think."

"But... it has been years since that experience."

"Why? To suffer again? It might take me years and millenniums… you know, because I didn’t learn anything in my first life there… How embarrassing it is to recognize this now.”

"But what else have you got in mind in order to obtain the ultimate peak to Heaven? Come on, let’s go!"

"You know what? You’re right. I'll en-soul. Let’s go! Show me the way to the "Transmigration of the Soul Gate". To know that you lived a life before this one and that there are many more to come is a very attractive perspective from which to judge the meaning of my life and my evolution. I am ready to live my existence!"



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