Today's Soup! A mini blog series

Trigger warnings: Mentions of d**th, c*ncer, v*m*t and bl**d. Proceed cautiously. 

Not too sure how I'm going to categorize this, but I'm gonna try to reach the right audience on this one!! 

So I wanted to start a miniature blog about some interesting thoughts I've had regarding death and reincarnation! If that's a topic you're interested in, feel free to stick around. If not, that's cool with me. Not every single mini blog will be this topic, however this particular one in mind will be. Enjoy the rest of your day or night and hope you stick around for this. :)

I'm gonna name this miniature blog series "Today's Soup" just because...it sounds nice to me. 

The real reason I want to discuss this topic is because I found myself realizing something quite interesting after my father had passed in February of 2022. Feel free to definitely comment down your thoughts or other perspectives on this subject. Just please be open minded, too. Thank you. :)

To start off, I would like to mention that the year 2022 is the year of...the RAT!  No wait, I just did my research and turns out that it's actually the year of the Tiger. How dare I get that wrong. ANYWAY. So, my BIG baby nephew, we'll just call him D. was born February 2nd, 2022. 2.2.2022. That's...a lot of 2s...He's a Capricorn and born the year of the tiger. So fascinating. 

Before D. was born, the end of 2021 was quite devastating I must say. December 24th rolled around. We were going to celebrate Christmas like normally each year, but unfortunately things in the household took a big turn and made a big change. I lived with three of my brothers and my father at that time. The night before Christmas Eve we had mexican food from a restaurant we normally frequented and they were terrific everytime...I had gone to bed later after a food coma, but also feeling sickly, thinking it had been from the food. Everyone in the house, with the exception of one of my brothers and my dad (at least I thought) was also feeling the same. So I rested until next morning hoping that normally I would feel better by then. No, everyone was sick and then...

On Christmas Eve morning, my brother broke the news that dad went to the hospital for chest pains, thinking he was having a heart attack. And it was more than that. He had cancer in his throat and was vomiting blood almost every hour or half hour... Writing this alone makes me relive these moments again so, I'm going to sum it all up as best I can to get to the point. --- We all ended up having covid that Christmas, so we couldn't visit him. He was very sad and it was a super sad and scary time for all of us. He wanted to off himself while he was admitted. He was frustrated and confused. He thought that we hated him and he just wanted to see all of us, but with the whole covid thing going on, we couldn't see him. December ended, it was about January 10th I want to say and we finally got to see him and he seemed like he was fairing well, however realistically, he was only getting worse. He ended up going on hospice, but we were all very thankful that he could come home and get to see all of us again.  On a very lucky note, he got to meet baby D. five days before he passed on February 7th 2022. 

And so, this is where the topic begins..
My younger brother, I'll call him A. had a discussion about how our dad was born September 27th, 1962. And looking at baby D's birthday, February 2nd, 2022...we saw something a little peculiar that almost made a universe of sense!!

If you go on the chinese zodiac calendar, you will see that 1962 is the year of the tiger, and it's a water tiger. And funnily enough, baby D's year and birthday fall on the year of the tiger, and so he too is a water tiger as well. The part that gets me the most though is how happy our nephew gets whenever he sees us and I'm just blown away because our other nephew wasn't really like that around his first moments with us. Our nephew is just super happy I wanna say, like I want to believe it's coincidence, but when I look into that baby's eyes..I just know and it feels too familiar.

I never believe so much in anything, however I do want to say that I feel almost convinced that the Chinese zodiac feels linked to how souls travel when they meet their end.

Just a thought. Any other thoughts?