3 Signs You’re an Old Soul and This Isn’t Your First Rodeo

There’s a strange longing to go home

If you didn’t know your age and couldn’t see your face, how old would you say you are based on how you feel? (Photo: Gerd Altmann)

1. You Feel Like An Outsider

The concept of old souls is inspired by the idea that we’ve been here before. Our souls reincarnate many times and our bodies are merely just vessels to contain an eternal soul. An old soul continues to reincarnate to learn, heal, and complete karmic lessons.

You’re an old soul if you find that you’ve been alone and isolated since the day you arrived here on earth. You never really fit in. This solitary existence isn’t something you chose or asked for. It’s just how it’s always been, no matter how hard you tried to fit in.

You find yourself alone most of the time, not because you’re antisocial but because you struggle to connect deeply with others.

Others are not interested in the soulful things you want to talk about and you are not interested in the shallow things they won’t stop talking about.

You find it so hard to relate with people.

You long and pray to find your tribe. This longing is often accompanied by the thirst to go back home, even when you’re home.

You often feel like an outsider looking in and as if you don’t belong here. That sometimes makes you…