Hmm. Could be. But what I know for certain is that sometimes a soul lived its last life so poorly that its only opportunity to ever move up again is to agree to live a throw away life from which no advancement is possible. That is the life my father's soul is presently living as a covert malignant narcissist of the highest degree. "When a soul so completely fucks up its previous lifecycle its penance is to come back to earth for the sole purpose of living the entire lifecycle in agony. My father’s soul needed to live a throw-away life to pay whatever karmic debt he previously amassed, and I needed a torturer for this lifecycle’s lesson-plan, so we were a match made in heaven." From my https://medium.com/grab-a-slice/canceling-my-father-the-ultimate-expression-of-empathy-dbf390772d26