To be honest, I am only aware that reincarnation means being reborn. Other than that, I am not aware of concept or ideas behind it. If I am to be reborn, will I remember the details of my past life? Will I still be the same person, but living in a different body? How long will it take for me to be reborn?
If reincarnation will occur at a time when all the people I knew in this lifetime have long been gone, then that only means that I will be living a different life. If that is the case, then I would love to come back and live another life. I'd like to see how life is going after few hundred years. Have we been progressive? Do people look at the environment differently? Perhaps, the technology has also been so advanced by then that we are capable of traveling to space and that other planets are already inhabitable. Just the thought of it excites me.
I do agree with your point on that. And for a child to be troubled by these stories for quite sometime, there must really be something behind it. That was an interesting theory. I really hope people who've lived a short life (but only those who have been good) will get to have another chance. I sometimes wonder, why do they have to be the first ones to go when there are a lot of people who do not even care about their lives or the lives of other people around them.