Reincarnation: The rebirth of the soul in another human or nonhuman body. There is no way to tell if it could happen or does, you can't remember after all. But can you imagine keeping your memory after reincarnating? it's easy to picture isn't it? You die but get another life, another chance to be born luckier, stronger, smarter or better looking. It sounds great... right until you you start looking at the odds; what are the chances of being born poor in a third world country, or with some genetic disorder? Reincarnation is a gamble, no two ways about it.

Even worse: what about animals? fish? insects? birds? even houseflies outnumber humanity by an absurd degree... being able to gain a second life but forced to live as a mere insect, as vermin, that is a curse, not a blessing.

Now I know what you're thinking: what about divine intervention? Yeah that sounds great as well. I bet you're imagining a kind, beautiful goddess snagging your soul from the great beyond like some kind of cosmic crane game. Selecting your soul, guiding it lovingly to a fantastic new world and gifting it a body of amazing unrivalled potential. Or perhaps a mighty god bearded and wise, selecting you for some heroic task like he was choosing you from a lineup for a team in a game of dodgeball. You poor naive fool. Why don't you go ahead and study some mythology for a bit and tell me how likely that is.

They don't care about you as anything more than a source of entertainment, and let me tell you, the gods of mythology have a juvenile and cruel sense of humor. Still not as bad as pissing one off though. Even being treated like a chess piece is better than being strapped to a rock so a honking great bird can fly down and eat your liver every day for the rest of eternity.

Then why do stories of reincarnation always tell of people who gain great abilities in other worlds? Tales of people reborn with mighty bodies of strong heroes or powerful dragons? It's simple: stories are told by people who want you to listen, they tell tales of heroes and monsters because those are interesting. No one wants to hear the life story of a bug... That is to say, like my second life.

….

...what?

...wait, you wanna hear it?

seriously?

you are pretty weird.

Well, I hope you like the tale I am about to tell, because I would hate for my life story to bore you or anything.

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Authors Note: Hey look! I'm writing!

Hopefully this doesn't stink too bad, I am mostly posting this to motivate myself to keep it up. Please tell me if my writing has any glaring flaws or even any squinting flaws.