Lifetimes...

People say, "You have just one life, live it well… We get one life, let's live it…" and so on. But the idea of Reincarnation is more branched out than that. The actual understanding is that of all the lifetimes our soul has completed up to now, and the lifetimes it is yet to experience, we are each going to experience the self we are right now only in this lifetime. Before this life and after this life, you have and will experience existence in entirely different identities and bodies.
No two lifetimes are ever the same.