LIFE is a learning process. You would think that you have learned a lesson well and then the universe throws the same problem at you from a different angle and all bets are off! It will feel like you never had the same experience before. Worse, you are bound to feel that you haven't learned anything at all! You find yourself shaking (or scratching) your head muttering: what the hell?
Yeah. Believe me. This has happened so many times than I care to count and admit to myself! I have “lessons” that I have been trying to “learn” for decades!
Everytime I think that I have finally learned it well, it happens again and I find myself back in step one! Often I find myself lamenting about the fact that the same things keep happening over and over again to me, like I do not suffer from the same fate (and sinking feeling) each time that it does! It really does feel like I never remember the lesson but quite honestly, I did!
Sometimes though, we are too headstrong to really think things over. Maybe, we just thought we learned our lesson but in truth, we actually have so much to gain if we only paid more attention. Sometimes we nonchalantly dismiss things and assume that we are done with it because it would be easier to do so than be faced with a (probably) stark and painful reality. Admit it, it does happen to all of us at some point.
Call it a defense mechanism but well, it can also be a delaying tactic for facing adverse emotions. This is not to say that if we do realize this that things will be easier to accept, not at all. Well, not all the time. Because really, there are times when we really, really need to go through the process so that we can move on.
Maybe it's true that when we keep experiencing things over and over it means that we haven’t fully grasped what it was meant to teach us. Experiences are multi-faceted hence, we also need to find resolve on different levels. There are many aspects that need attention so unless we grasp everything in one go, it will repeat itself.
I read somewhere that life is like a huge wave. It surges and ebbs according to its whims. We can try to fight it as much as we can but the best thing for us to do is to learn to go with it and adjust to it so that we can ride it as smoothly as we can. Life lessons help us do this a little better each time so, just hang in there, things will be fine!
Happy Sunday Everyone!!! :)