Pertho’s Pronouncements
The School of Life
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the future. My life, in a way, has slowed down. It’s that feeling of the same thing, day after day. But when I look closer, it’s not doing that at all. I’m experiencing new things every day. In other words, every day is not EXACTLY the same, even though the same activities take place, and therefore, my perceptions of them are not the same either. My mind is still taking everything in, and I’m finding myself looking inward more and more.
The time in which we are human has been compared to being in school. When we are on the “other side”, we apparently cannot experience negativity, which is why we incarnate here to not only experience it, but to learn from it. But what do you make of that fact when you learn of it, and realize that you can “quit” school if you like? Yes, it seems if things get too off track, you can choose to abort the whole thing, and start over in another life later on. By “off track”, I mean not conforming to the chart you laid out for yourself before this life started. But how would you know? Seems to me it’s just better to ride it out, stay in school, and hope to “graduate” when this lifetime is over.
But I digress. I myself have been thinking about the way I perceive other people. Today is much different than yesterday, a week ago, and certainly a year ago. My whole life, as I think about it, has been a gradual change in my own perceptions, due to the events I experience. I have heard the saying “Be yourself”, and “All you have to do in life is to be who you are, and not compare yourself to others, or rely on others to make you feel complete”, that sort of stuff, but I’m just getting to the point where I can really grasp the meaning of those words. I have always been one to compare myself to others, and, in one way or another, find myself lacking, and my self esteem goes right in the toilet. THIS has been the major change, the development, especially over the last couple of years, for me to break that cycle, that thought process.
As I look back on prior events in my life, it really does shape up to be a form of schooling, training even. I thought just recently about how my life seems so different from even a few months ago, but in reality, it’s not. What IS different is how I perceive it. And, I am not so worried about what others perceive in ME. That’s their business, not mine. I am not them. I am me. I am the only person I can be. I am the only person I can think for. So, as I ponder current events, and look back on past ones, I can perceive them with new eyes, and see the “process” as it has happened.
No one’s education here in this life is exactly like yours. Every life is completely unique. So there’s no sense in trying to mold your own to match someone else’s, because it will not work. You are here to learn what YOU came here to learn.
I’m not sure where my life is going next, but wherever it goes, the “schooling” continues. I feel that I have completed SOME of the courses, but there’s still a long way to go before I graduate. I know one thing though…..it’s going to be very interesting…….