What you really are is immortal, you have never known death and will never know it. Your concepts of beginnings and endings create the illusion of death. You have lived male and female lives, heterosexual and homosexual lives that were glorious and romantic, miserable and savage, judgemental and prejudiced, understanding and allowing others to be, famous, infamous and mundane. But all that you have ever been in your past is not as great as you are right now, though you may not recognise your potential. Your present life is the cumulative knowledge and experience of all live you have ever lived.
Emotional experience is the treasure of existence.