Today I spent some time with my children. It was exciting listening to stories from their previous lives. One of my favorites was the story from an Ent that was a princess in her past life. She told me about how she struggled her whole life to claim her people's crown because she knew that her older brother would destroy everything their family has worked for. Ultimately she failed and was proven right at the same time, when her brother let an invading army take her people's home.
These stories made me think, what type of story will I have when I die? When I am inevitably forced to reincarnate what will I remember of this life? There is little chance that I will remember nothing, if for no other reason than Fate. So what will I remember?
Ideally I would look back on this life and remember everything, but that is even less likely than me remembering nothing. So let me try again, ideally I would be proud of what I accomplished in this life, or at the very least inspired by it.
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But what will I remember? In every single case my children have remembered parts that are core to who they were, names and faces are never remembered but the impact people and places had is. The what is often forgotten but the why is often remembered.
Practical knowledge is only remembered when used constantly or understood deeply. I will likely remember how to heal, as that is almost entirely my own. But I might forget how to manipulate plants, and even if I don’t I still won’t be as good as I am now. I will definitely lose Solar Energy, as that is entirely reliant on my body. Fate is up to chance.
It’s weird, out of everything I’ve built so far, my skill in healing is the only thing that I would be able to really claim to be entirely my own skill. Yeah, I did learn quite a bit from that piece of Origin soul, but it is still entirely my own skill that is making use of that knowledge. I can’t claim the same for plant manipulation.
Anyway, Good Night Diary.