Few people know the real meaning of karma or reincarnation because they tend to associate these terms with very abstract or esoteric conceptualizations, most of which are related to unpractical applications or other things that they can't really measure and see.😇

Karma is mainly related to three things:

• Challenges;
• Fears;
• Barriers.

These three elements are very important because either you believe in past lives and reincarnation, or you don't, you can still see these three things manifesting continuously in your path. Actually, by analyzing reincarnations, we can measurably see them.

Consider, for example, these three time periods: past, present, and future. We may even consider different past time periods and, to make it simple, I can consider them as being four different past lives. Each one of these different pasts represents a different past life, which means that the individual has been evolving. And yet, we all evolve in different ways, and that's when free will gains meaning. We have the freedom to determine our paths although the destination and the rules are the same for everyone.

As we evolve throughout different lives, three things will shape our identity:

• We develop skills related to what we do in life;
• We develop abilities that can help us perform better in whatever we do;
• We develop a certain personality related to our job or activity.

These elements make us more confident and able whenever we match them at present time with how we make decisions. And so, it's perfectly normal that we might always tend to seek activities that are somehow similar to things that we have done before. If one past life is related to leadership, in which you were a king or a queen, you have developed the ability to talk to different people at the same time, which makes you more capable to be a teacher in this present life. It doesn't mean however that you'll be a good teacher, mainly because times change, and therefore, challenges are different and so are the fears.

The same principle applies to our present life. What we have today isn't the same as what we had ten years ago. And the reason why so many people are nowadays unemployed or incapable of finding the job they want, is that, as times change, also the individual needs to change and adapt.

In this way, it makes sense to ask ourselves why we can recognize our identity but not our life purpose. And yet, the answer can be resumed in what you must do now, as your life purpose is related to what should be doing twenty years from now.