Have you ever met someone with whom you felt an instant relationship? Most of us have had this experience. We feel a common bond with this person, as if we have known them forever. We immediately care about this person. We strike up a conversation and find we have much in common.

Case in point; I go to a store that ships items for USPS two or three days per week. I arrived one day to find a new employee behind the counter. She is an Afro-American and I am white. We started off with the business at hand. No other customers were in the store at that time. I asked how she was doing. I could tell from the look on her face she had a problem. I told her I knew that look. It was about a boyfriend. She asked how I knew that was her problem. I told her I felt I knew more about her. She asked if we have met before. I told her not in this lifetime. I described her life to a tee. I told her she attended college and was studying business, math and social sciences. She was amazed that I was correct. She is much younger than me. I told her we were great friends in a past lifetime and we cared about each other very much. She admitted feeling a kinship with me. I told her that in the past lifetime we had a passion for writing and used to read each others’

Work and talk about God and seeking enlightenment. I told her she was a white girl and the relationship was purely platonic. She gazed into my eyes and said she believed me. She said she still has a passion for writing. She felt it in her heart. Since then, when I go to that store, we tell each other our situations in life. No matter how long between visits to the store, we always remember the tiniest details about each other.

Is reincarnation real? I am not sure. I do know this is not the first time such an occasion has happened to me. When I was a teenager, I met a friend at school. We became fast friends. Once again, the feeling that we had known each other forever surfaced. We were too young to know about reincarnation, but the same distinctive things between us ran true. Although, I have moved to another state, we still keep in touch and consider ourselves brothers. Were we brothers in a past lifetime. I do not know.