A Story in My Head...
Once there was a man and a woman reincarnated over ten lifetimes. The man was not a good man... He was power hungry and calculating and often sacrificed the people close to him for power. Yet when he met the woman he fell deeply in love with her and could not bear to bring her pain. Gradually his heart began to change and his actions followed suit...
His past, however, was far too dark to escape and because of his sins he and the woman died together tragically.
It so happened that an earth spirit fell in love with the woman during her first life and, after seeing her terrible fate, vowed to keep her safe in her next one.
However, in her next incarnation the woman fell in love with the bad man again and again he changed—
But alas—as before the results of his previous behavior poisoned their happiness and they were met with tragedy once more—despite the efforts of the kind earth spirit.
In their third life the earth spirit was determined to change the woman’s fate and he used his influence to have the lovers born as rival royals from warring kingdoms.
And still, despite his best effort, they fell in love. As before the wicked man was changed and as before his past deeds came back to haunt them with deadly results.
The earth spirit cried in despair as again and again—lifetime after lifetime—he placed obstacles in the path of their love and again and again they overcame them and the man was redeemed.
Finally on the ninth incarnation the earth spirit sought the woman out and told her the story of how he fell in love with her. He explained dejectedly that she was doomed to love a wicked man whose past would ultimately destroy her and described all the ways he had sought to spare her by keeping him away.
The woman looked at him for a long time with sadness in her eyes.
“You are so selfish,” she said at last. “You had the power to nurture our fate, but all you did was make it harder... If what you say is true, then my love redeems him every time, yet I am always too late... Why would you not let me meet him sooner?”
The earth spirit was deeply ashamed of himself and promised the woman that in her next life he would bring them together as soon as he could.
On the tenth incarnation the lovers were born next door to one another. The man never became wicked because his love for the woman never allowed his soul to grow cold as it had in all his previous lives. They lived many long and happy years together and the earth spirit vowed to never interfere with their destinies again.
The woman would always find him and save him, no matter where or when they met, and in turn the wicked man would always change and ultimately become a better person for her.
Sometimes their fate was bitter, sometimes it was sweet. But they knew love in every lifetime and treasured it above all other things...