Life Lessons

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Just when I think I understand how it works, something happens that throws everything off again...
This is especially true for things that seem to be related to my ‘life-lessons’.

Looking at those I have to admit that for the longest time I didn’t have a clue about them. Yes, I knew that everybody has their specific things they encounter in life that are hard for them ~ just as I had mine. And bit by bit I took those on, learned more about them, handled them...

But as life-lessons go, it seems never enough to handle them and be done with them.

So how does this work?

I have come to understand life-lessons as those things I decided I wanted to learn more about as I journeyed through life. It usually has to do with a concept like ‘equality’ or ‘self worth’.
The thing is that we, as we are going about our lives, tend to forget we so much wanted to learn about a concept like that when we decided to reincarnate again, that we took this on as a life-lesson.

From the point of that decision on, two things come up:

First, if we are taught a great sense of for instance ‘equality’, we are not nearly as apt to seek out what it really means to us, what it feels like, what it can do for us. In other words, if we are taught equality, it becomes harder for us to experience all aspects of equality. Yet if we are placed in a position of non-equality while growing up, we eventually will go and find out what equality really is...
In other words, we learn more/better through adversity than through ‘smooth sailing’.

Second, if we want to learn all there is to know about something like equality, than it behooves us to set ourselves up in such a way that we come across issues about equality throughout our life. This means that whenever we feel we have ‘handled it’, we already start creating the situation where a slightly different issue about equality will enter our lives to be looked at, understood and handled...

And hopefully, looking back at our time in the earth-plane, we will find that indeed we did learn an awful lot about all kinds of different aspects of equality.

In the meantime, as we are going about living our lives, we tend to just see the issue pop up yet another time, and another time, and another time...
The good news in that is, however, that as soon as we realize this is one of our life-lessons, we start recognizing what is happening, and are a lot more likely to handle whatever it is that is coming our way this time around, and to move on...
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