its amazing what you think of just before you lose consciousness

have you ever felt like you were born at the wrong time? or in the wrong place?

i have a theory, and most of you will tell me that i have lost it, but you cant prove me wrong.

i think that when you die, your consciousness goes to whatever the afterlife may be, if its heaven and hell, or if its nothing, whatever, but i dont think that your consciousness is destroyed. i think that it goes into a queue, where it waits for a new body. and not like "i hope you come back as a lobster" but only taking human form again, not as animals. now, stuff like memories and stuff that is learned is not carried over, however, feelings and emotions are, and that is why some people feel like they should be born in certain places and times, they have a deep longing and feeling to go back to where they were before, where there consciousness was, to there previous life.

for me, i have a deep longing to be a viking, to explore the edge of the earth, to trade with everyone in the known world and still have the audacity to go where no one has before, to sail to new lands, to brave harsh weather and fill in the edges of the map. you see, i listen to music from leaves' eyes and something deep inside me burns like a fire, as if it is stoking a fire deep inside me, a longing to explore the harsh north, a need to explore, a need to sail the ocean. i really feel that in a past life i was a viking, i long to sail the sea, to fight the storm, to share such a great passion with others, all of us, rowing onward into the unknown.