If I was told that I’d come back to earth to be reincarnated as another human being with choices. I would like the following;
To be a woman. To be non-binary, still. To still remain a ‘gray world resident’. To retain my ability to not cave to FOMO and be resourceful. There’s a hundred of other things but in terms of core ones, those are the few.
I would like to just retain my memories and my ego.
My genes. I want the exact same body as I have now. My race and ethnicity and skin color and size and hair and literally everything I am comes from what I look like and how I was treated because of that.
I gotta come back? Lame.
I’d wanna be born in france. I would’ve been a happier person there.
What is a grey world resident?
I would of course choose to keep all my memories/cognition starting as a baby. Anime isekai has demonstrated that is more than enough to get a HUGE head start in life.
Maybe keep my old body? Its definitely not perfect: flat footed, need glasses, skin cancer likely, dementia is a maybe, etc. But at the same time, a lot of other people have it worse so I would be re rolling the die on that one, which could end up MUCH worse for me.
Mad respect for drawing from isekai 🤙
I would politely decline.
Unless I’m being born into a world where I don’t have to feasibly spend half my life working (at best), I’m not interested. I would time travel back and prevent my own birth if I could, and my life kicks ass.
I would want to keep the lessons I’ve learned, my morality, and my stock of crystalline knowledge and skills, but I guess it would be a good thing if I could forget the majority of my life, so that things like rereading books that I’ve read in the past, or watching TV shows that I’ve seen before, would be a thing that I could enjoy.
It would also be cool if I could be born again in a scenario that would allow me to re-meet the better people I’ve met in this life and grow up around them and have more time with them.
My empathy, and ability to make friends wherever I go.
But I’d rather not be reincarnated at all if I can help it. Once was enough.
Uff, such a hard question! I would love to re-find the people I love in this life, but if that isn’t given I wonder if remembering them would do good. I am already really miss all the ones that are not here anymore, missing everyone would be such a hard burden to carry.
If it is known that I will be reincarnated in the future, my history and science knowledge would definitely come in handy. If reincarnated in the past, probably less so.
About core elements… I like not feeling peer pressure and being able to make up my own mind. I am fairly analytical. I would like to keep that. I also stick to my friends with almost-infinite loyalty. I would keep that, because without I would not feel like me anymore.
Born to rich mentally stable parents.
My brain of course. It’s a good one.
In your new life, when you’re around 6 or 7 years old, one day you begin to wonder about that shrivelled, walnut-like thing your parents have in a jar.
Eventually you find out it’s a human brain. They got it years ago when they met in med school - they met when they worked on the same cadaver in a lab. You have no way of knowing it, but that brain was yours in a past life. Eventually you go to medical school yourself, and you take the jar with you.
Hundreds of things just like you, but mainly all the wisdom, especially that which came with pain and hatred, so that I don’t make the same interpersonal mistakes again. Too bad there isn’t a “what to discard” choice, because getting rid of being assigned male at birth would be huge.
