Boring Life

[Obie]

I saw I had a very boring life during the American Revolution. I was a bachelor with bad eye sight who printed books. I lived with my sister and her children. I think my way of supporting the family was thru my job. I printed many bibles. I could look at a book and tell which printing press had published the book. I could look at books in stores of the time in that lifetime and tell which ones I had printed. There were some things which used to bother me a lot such as having to print wanted posters for runaway slaves. I used to be on the side of the slaves (I was from the North and an abolitionist) but due to the nature of my job I used to have to print wanted posters for catching the runaway slaves.

I told my friend about this lifetime. She told me that my current lifetime I have trouble standing up for what I believe in and I need to work on it. In that life I wanted to stand up for the slaves but I was too scared to lose my job b/c that was the only thing that supported me and my sister and her family. I think that is what I have learned from that lifetime.

 

[Nightrain]

I told my friend about this lifetime. She told me that my current lifetime I have trouble standing up for what I believe in and I need to work on it. In that life I wanted to stand up for the slaves but I was too scared to lose my job b/c that was the only thing that supported me and my sister and her family.

Hi Obie! Like you, I relate to and remember the period of the American Revolution as well as the printing business of that era. I also can relate well to the issues of whether to stand up for a cause, which invariably is done to the detriment of another cause, for we are so often faced with more than one serious issue. During that time, as well as now, we have had responsibilities toward our families as well as to our community. However, serving one may often have been at cross-purposes to the other.


If you had become more involved in the social issues of your time, you might have had to face the reality of neglecting those closest to you. While you have been accused of not "standing up" in this lifetime, I have been accused of the opposite; neglecting my family for the sake of numerous causes. In my case, I've clearly been guilty of the accusation, because I now realize that family comes first. In your case, however, one has to consider that the accusation may be unfair, because your priorities are, perhaps, where they should be.

 

[ChrisR]

Thanks for sharing Obie :thumbsup:


It doesn't sound like a 'boring' life to me. Just a normal everyday life that the majority of the population past and present have led, and the kind of life that most people here can remember, contrary to the popular belief that most people who can remember a past life think that they were someone special, or famous.

 

[hydrolad]

Obie:


No lifetime is wasted if you acquire knowledge in that lifetime, one thinks of waste when you learn nothing from your life experiences.


Per your recollections of your PL, in that previous lifetime you learned several things, acquiring a "talent" for printing, acquiring a responsibility to help others and to live with others, so this was not a wasted life by any means, but sounds like an excellent learning lifetime!


In regards to your thoughts on slavery, sometimes we have to balance our inner feelings with reality, as these times were difficult times, fraught with danger that could harm your family, and rightly you sought to protect and provide for your family, very commendable!

 

[Tinkerman]

Hiya Obie, thanks for sharing. I'm with Hydrolad, I think you learned a lot of things in that life, and contributed a lot as well. It sounds like you have a good grasp on the lessons you need in this life too.


Tman

 

[kmatjhwy]

Obie, thanks also for sharing and now I would not call that a boring life. It must of have had some sort of significance to you for you to remember it. If it was truly 'boring' then maybe you would have not remembered it. Now I also am really drawn to this American Revolutionary time period and had a past life in this time period. It was an such exciting time to live thru and I betcha there was much more to this life then what is on the surface. Also personally believe that after one life, we so often just want come back have and enjoy another life again for how precious and wonderful is life.

 

[Florence]

Hi,


Edgar Cayce said that after having a number of difficult lives...being tested on greed, or having a karmic situation linger through several lives....you often get a "rest" You get an easy life...or as you say ...a "boring life"


I too believe you did the right thing by supporting your family. Had you spoken up during that difficult time when tempers were very close to the surface....you may have been murdered. Your family would have been left without anyone to care for them and a dead man cannot help slaves...


Help a neighbor in this life as he may have been a slave in his last life....you never know....

 

[Lizzi]

Hi Obi,


If you think your past life as a slave it was boring, I say was better than to be a slave in the ancient Rome, exposed naked in front of a multitud#G^H to see if I had "physical aptitudes" to be confronted with...big hungry animals up to death...:thumbsup:I'd like to print books then


The most important thing is to learn from it and to fins out how you can change for good your current life ***