So many lives

Sometimes I am asked how can I prove that we have many lives.
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Or that reincarnation is real.
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I have replied in a variety of ways.
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Usually pointing out that it is not up to me to prove anything.
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What we all choose to believe is our own business.
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In my case it is not a belief it is an understanding that it is the truth.
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A truth because for myself I have had that rare opportunity to put the question beyond any doubt.
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For myself that is.
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But for you?
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It is a question to be answered by yourself through your own efforts.
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However a little thought here might be helpful.
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In this life the one you are in now you also have many lives.
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We do not think of it in this way as we think of our current life as a continuum. 
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Just think though when you were a child your life was very real.
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Look around you at some little children and observe how they play.
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How they live in this moment oblivious of adults or others around them.
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Intent on their own experiences.
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Then when they become teenagers.
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Again intent on their own world and it's latest trends or fashions.
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Again in our early twenties the same.
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Young lovers oblivious to all around them.
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Then we move on to our business or working life and are intent on our own careers..
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Later as parents and we experience our total absorption in this section of our lives.
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Middle age too we are focussed on our own needs.
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Old age arrives all to soon and it is the same.
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All of these are in a very real sense partitioned, separate lives.
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Lives where we are immersed in the experience of that age, that time, that space.
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And today what do we remember of them? 
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Just fragments, mere fragments. 
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Think about it how much of any of those stages do you really remember?
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The truth be known not much unless aided by photos or someone describing an incident you both shared.
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Those separate lives are what make us what we are now
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Without even one day of all those different segments or lives we would be different people from what we are today.
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We could not be what we are today.
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The you of today is the sum total not only of those separate lives experienced in this incarnation but of all your other incarnations too.
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The fact that you remember precious little about even this life does not invalidate it.
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Does not mean it is not real. 
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Of course it is,  you are the sum total of all those lives and experiences.
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Just as you are the sum total of all your many previous lives.
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Maybe the above does not answer your questions about reincarnation.
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It does though point out that your remembering precious little about all your "lives" in this present life does not mean that this life is any less real.
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Few of us remember much detail about this life we are in now.
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Reincarnation is the only the way one can make sense of this life and what we are here for.
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By this I mean looking at our abuse of nature, genocide, murder of each other, greed, selfishness and the rest.
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How can you explain these appalling behaviours?
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Certainly not through any current religious teachings or practice.
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Could any loving God seriously allow these things?
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Fully understand reincarnation and karma and you can then understand why things are as they are.
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No other teaching can explain the situation on this planet in a satisfactory logical way.
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Once understood life is different because something understood changes our experience of it.
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Knowing this gives you greater peace of mind.
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And greater peace of mind is something special
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Something so much nicer than having ever more fear as the case for most today in our increasingly unpredictable and volatile world.