Reincarnation or A Chance To Restart (An Idea for a Sci Fi Story)

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There have been a couple of posts today I've seen about reincarnation. This is an interesting coincidence. I was recently thinking along the lines of reincarnation for a story. The premise is that you do get reincarnated, but not as someone new in this timeline, but as yourself in a new timeline that begins with your conception, everything prior to that being exactly the same as it was prior to your creation. Of course, no one remembers having been born before and very little changes from time to time except for, perhaps, those little things we just feel an impulse to do or not do the same way this time, that feeling of deja vu most of us feel from time to time. The story would revolve around someone who keeps his memories of his previous incarnation in his last timeline and tries to do things differently each time so as to avoid, or cause, a certain outcome, but no matter how many times he goes through it, in the end, the outcome is the same. Anyway, that's the basics. It needs a lot of work before putting pen to paper, or fingers to keys, as the case may be.