I like to think that we have other opportunities to start again when we cease to exist in our current life, to be born again, a new opportunity or a new beginning for us to be all that exists, does not seem to me something so incoherent, when we think of life as something infinite, without beginning or end.

To be reborn, to be reborn... I had never thought about what I would like to be if this is really so, but this time they really made it difficult for me.

I imagined myself in a huge bubble spinning in millions lights, I am one of those lights, I am a soul that must return to life like all the others and the bubble is constantly renewed with souls that arrive after death, others go anywhere in the universe to start a new cycle.

My turn came to return to some body and I want to be human again, for some strange reason I am made to know that this is not possible, then I ask to be a Baiji dolphin, just for vanity because they are really beautiful, also they are always fresh in sweet river water, also they look very peaceful, if I have to return, I just want to have a quiet life, this in case some human does not want to catch me. All this happens in my imagination, as you know, but as this beautiful animal is extinct it is not possible to take its form in my next life on earth.

I am made to know that I have only 2 options: chicken or snake.

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Ohh, rays, I never dreamed of being either of these specimens neither in my wildest reveries nor in my worst nightmares, but I have to choose....

Snake?

No, no! I have a phobia of them, I don't find them attractive at all and they live in crawl. Some are very powerful and venomous and I don't want to be venomous, nor do I want to depend on my physical strength and venom to survive. They are very cold animals and I don't want to be that cold, and I don't mean just physically. Plus I think it causes panic in many people and I want to scare almost no one, least of all women and children.

I know many people like snakes, I don't understand it but I respect it. I really don't like them at all, I would never want to be one of them, besides the worst thing is that they have a long life, an average of 10 to 40 years, of course this depends on many factors, such as habitat conditions and the species, among others.

Having the possibility of living 40 years being something you don't want is terrible.

Chicken?

I can be devoured by a snake, I would die quickly, not bad. I can be cooked on the coals and grace the table of some humans, short life, not bad, in the sense that it would all be over quickly and I would have a new chance to return, perhaps to an express mission as an ephemeral butterfly, perhaps as an eagle, a seagull, a hummingbird or a human on an organic farm in New Zealand.

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Being a chicken, I can have a full life in a park or pen, however, it would not be for long.

Depending on my sex, I may be able to lay eggs and feed people with that, I don't know how a hen would feel about it, whether she suffers the loss of her spawn or is indifferent to it, the fact is that I had chicken eggs for breakfast this morning and it was just fine with me. Maybe being a chicken I can understand if this is really okay and if I have a human life again, maybe I will not feel like consuming animals or their derivatives again, I don't know.

The idea of being reborn I think is latent in many of us, I have heard many times "maybe in my past life I was..." or some of us believe that possibly we will reincarnate again as humans, but no person can be sure if we were some other being before this present being or if we will be born again after we die.

If death is a mystery, so is life. We may have ideas that seem crazy about our existence, but we can neither affirm nor deny whether they are really absurd or irrational.

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_{This writing is inspired by @galenkp's proposal for this weekend.}

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Thanks for reading

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_{The images belong to me and were edited in Canva.}