An Amateur Gaze into the Age of a Soul

We all hear it: people have old souls and new souls and, I don’t know, middle-aged souls? Personally, I’ve been told I have a soul that dates back to inkwells and lamplights, rematerializing in various periods and various places. The common myth of our current fears being our fates in a past life makes me wonder if my personality and my way of living are formed from these other entities that share, or shared, a center with me. Are we all just the accumulation of the past versions of ourselves? Or is it more of a subliminal, humming presence--such as things like déjá vus you can never explain. And what about people who are viewed as new souls; are their personalities simply a matter of what they come into contact with in this first life? 

Let’s try to figure out a definition of an old soul--something that’s strictly up for personal interpretation. Is an old soul a person who has had many past lives, or just someone who feels like they have lived a long time despite what their low age may say? Is the so-called heightened sense of perception that old-souls possess due to these past lives, or just the pushed idea of having these past lives? I like to think it’s all of it. Maybe I feel like I am extremely observational of life because perhaps I was friends with Claude Monet in one life and a New England poet using the pseudonym of a man in another--or maybe I’m just gonna push forth this idea because I like what it presents for me and the world and makes me seem wise beyond my years. Either way, in my experience, old-souls are experiential people of knowledge and I always ponder what lives have been lived in the hearts of people. Technically, isn’t almost everyone an old-soul?

Now onto new souls--something I am not but think about quite often. Going off of our definition of an old soul, a new soul must be a person who is in their first life; something that, I assume, is extraordinarily rare. I could not tell you if I have ever come across someone who is a new soul. Now, contrary to what my last paragraph may tell you, old-souls are not the only people who are observational or perceptive or “wise.” In fact, imagine the observation of a soul that has never been before, imagine all the new things someone would notice. I would think there must be immense pressure on new souls; you are the foundation of an eternal existence--the jumping off point of souls and souls and souls to come. How I wish new souls the best of luck.

What kind of soul do you have? An ancient soul? A soul that is only in its second, third, or fourth life? Regardless, new souls are not the only ones that have roads to pave; any soul, at any time, builds off of the last one and the ones before it. Meaning, your life right now will impact the next home of your soul. I encourage you to think about what or where your soul was before it was yours--or, was it always yours? This topic isn’t located in a textbook or found in any library, this is purely your own idea and what you make of it. Life is interpreted in the way you interpret it. Your soul and its multiple, singular, split, or any other lives it has had, or will have, is something that I simply find intriguing to think about. However, I do advise you to consider with caution, as analyzing the many sides of your soul can become quite the existential question.