It’s crucial for an old soul to get enough space and time to reflect, introspect, and develop more self-awareness. Old Souls tend to think a lot … about everything. Being very perceptive and sensitive toward the reality of death, old souls choose to live their lives differently. In fact, it’s not uncommon for the old soul to have multiple existential crises throughout life, especially during difficult situations that highlight the impermanence of existence. Old Souls are frequently plagued with reminders of their own mortality and that of everything and everyone around them.
Experiencing a spiritual awakening, overcoming the confines of the ego, seeking spiritual enlightenment and self-realization, and fostering love and peace are often at the core of the Old Soul’s ultimate quest in life. Old Souls tend to have sensitive and spiritual natures. Old Souls inherently understand that knowledge is power, wisdom is happiness, and truth is freedom, so why not seek after those things? These pursuits are more meaningful to them than reading up on the latest gossip about the Kardashians or the latest football scores. This might seem a little highbrow, but the Old Soul finds herself naturally gravitating towards the intellectual side of life. They struggle to connect deeply with others because most other people don’t have the same interests or values as them. The result is that Old Souls tend to find themselves alone a lot of the time.
If you have not yet discovered whether you’re an Old Soul, read some of the revealing signs below: 1# You tend to be a lone wolfīecause Old Souls are disinterested in the pursuits and interests of the people in their age groups, they find it dissatisfying to make friends with people they find hard to relate to. This sense of alienation is one of the major problems Old Souls experience. Robert Frost, Eckhart Tolle, Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey, and even Nick Jonas have been called Old Souls. We’ll explore Old Souls and spiritual awakening more a little later. There are two major types of Old Souls: those that are born with the sensation of being “different,” and those who “grow into” becoming Old Souls through the process of spiritual awakening. This longing is often described as the thirst to “return back home.”
As a result, most Old Souls long for a sense of true meaning, purpose and inner fulfillment that money, power, and success can’t achieve. Old Souls are often outsiders looking in, they feel as though they don’t “belong” in this world, or this period of time. This feeling is often accompanied by the gift of empathy, high intelligence, intuition, and keen insight into the human condition. Quite simply, an Old Soul is a person who feels much older than their age reflects.