the meaning of old souls

As the bus weaved through rollling emerald green hills and rustic stone homes, I felt myself meditating over the meaning of old souls. I felt that once a soul passes onto the afterlife, it has an opportunity to cleanse itself from all earthly matters. The old souls never complete this process and therefore enter a new body with all of its life experiences. A new soul emerges in this body and the old one co-habits with the new one. In essence, you have two souls living and breathing as one. Unfortunately for the person with these two souls, there are parts of them that they cannot explain. I think it is because their unconcious is still living in the past, but their concious is living in the present and so you have someone like myself who has always been drawn to Ireland and the U.K. since I was three years old. I use to justify it as a means of escape from my dreary and dismal childhood living with a mother too burnt out to manage her stress well enough. Now that I look out the window and see other towns such as Dongeagal, Newry and such...I begin to wonder what life may have been.