For everything in life is figureoutable.

There is a theory that we choose our lives before we are born.

Up in the heavens or wherever souls convene before they are incarnated, we look into our potential future life as if watching a movie. We may consider various scenarios until we choose the experience that will fit our highest good. Then, when we are born into the life we have chosen, we forget it all.

What if this were true?

Let’s imagine a life like this.

Our parents were chosen before we were born. We may love or hate them, rich or poor, kind or mean, but they are ours.

Our parents are our first teachers; our first lessons will come from them.

Because life is a place to grow and learn, our journey will be filled with various lessons. Some will be absorbed quickly, and some may take a lifetime.

Do not worry about how long it takes or if we will fail. We cannot fail. A lesson requires patience; it will not go away until learned.

Lessons can also be tricksters. When we think we ‘got it,’ an experience may come back, disguised, testing us, making sure we did  ‘get it.’ They need to be sure it was learned.

And they are brilliant. Lessons understand we may try to navigate around and over them, dig ourselves under them, or ignore them completely. We may even profess that ” We got that lesson down!” when we want it to go away…

However, the lesson remains until we go through them; we will not see the gift and meaning of what they want to teach us until we complete it. A lesson likes to be torn apart, dissected, and analyzed. It wants us to absorb what it is presenting to us. Then, it knows it is complete and has been learned. It is only then that a lesson moves on.

Lessons love mistakes. They understand mistakes are just an opportunity to learn the lessons at hand. Trial and error, experimentation, and failure are the only ways to facilitate success, so lessons always encourage the chance to make mistakes. Lessons see the value of good mistakes and sometimes cheer us on to keep at it until we figure it out.

Where do we find the knowledge to learn these lessons?

Our lives were designed perfectly to learn. Every person we meet and every situation we face is an opportunity for growth. It is our test to learn the lesson.

A lesson will not come into our lives unless we have the skills to manage and learn it.

So luckily, we have all the tools we need within our reach. The power to create is within our thoughts. It is the paint that colors our lives. Everything we think can become a thing.

That is why our world reflects who we are. Perhaps this is the most important lesson of all.

You may ask, if my life is already set, why must there be lessons?

Because a pre-chosen path doesn’t mean there isn’t free will. Our lives take on many twists and turns, which are governed by the choices we make. It is within those choices we learn life’s lessons.

So, if we have chosen this life, this path, and these lessons, perhaps the key is to accept how our lives unfold and honor the lessons that feed our souls.

At the least, it is something to think about.

When the test comes and we wonder where the teacher is, remember a teacher is always quiet during a test.