The thing is, I'm something called an Avatar. On my world, the Avatar's the only one who can learn all four elements and use them to keep peace. And we have a cycle of reincarnation. When one Avatar's life ends, he or she is reborn to the next nation in the cycle. So I have a lot of lives before mine. And the Avatar before me... some of the things he did, or didn't do, when he was alive... and it wound up letting bad things happen in my life. Not that I blame him or anything! But it kinda sounds like what you were saying about actions between lifetimes.