2 min read Learning

Life is a class room

It seems like we don’t get to choose how our lessons are delivered (neither the classroom setting nor the circumstances of our challenges). We only get to influence which are the most appropriate lessons we need to learn, based on the choices we make and how we show up.
Life is a class room

Life is full of challenges and lessons to learn. It never stops.

It feels like constant learning and growing is baked into the human experience.

But who's the teacher? And who decides what lessons we need to learn?

It seems like we don’t get to choose how our lessons are delivered (neither the classroom setting nor the circumstances of our challenges). We only get to influence which are the most appropriate lessons we need to learn, based on the choices we make and how we show up.

Ultimately, it seems to me that somehow the world works in harmony with the agenda of guiding our growth towards less ego and higher awareness.

Trapped in the same lesson

Do the lessons ever stop? No, doesn't seem like it. But when we realize that life is a growth-centric experience, then we can start to see our challenges in a different light.

Our job is not to pass every single test the first time but rather, it’s to avoid being trapped in a repeating pattern of the same lessons over and over. There are many things that trap us in a repetitive cycle of negative thinking but the most common, in my opinion, is an addiction to our ‘why I am a victim’ story.

You are not a victim

The victim story keeps us trapped because, as we repeat the story, it affirms and reaffirms who we believe we are. This robs us of our ability to change because it fails to recognize that, although who we are today is a result of our previous decisions, who we are becoming is a result of the choices we make now.

Make choices as a victim, stay a victim. If we let go of the story and start making choices from a different place, we can watch life get better in all areas. It may not happen instantly, but what's easy to miss is that it’s the direction of travel that is important.

It's more important to not sit in the same class and fail the same exam time after time, than trying to get a 100% test score (and beating ourselves up for not doing so).

This was on my chest, thanks for listening.

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