There is a possibility that you were sent to this life with a specific purpose.  For example, you may have been sent here to experience and accept the experience of, say, humility.  Perhaps that's something you need for your spiritual evolution.  You may have signed up for Humility 101, your coach may have prepared you for the experience, and you may feel you are sufficiently centered to handle the assignment.

     Then, just as you are being born, you forget your purpose.  That forgetting is an integral part of being born.  Thus, you go through a lifetime of opportunities to experience and accept humility, not knowing that's your reason for being here.  Chances are, you will resist those experiences, hate them, and try to avoid them.

     Life may up the ante, moving from humbling to humiliating experiences and you will continue your resistance.  If you eventually surrender--experiencing and accepting the experience of humility--you will have succeeded.  If you persist in your resistance, that doesn't make you a bad spirit--you just have to retake the course, again and again and again.

     Notice that if you remembered your purpose and simply mellowed your way through life, chanting OHMMMMMMMM and accepting whatever came your way, you would not have grown.  That would be like a champion prize-fighter accepting the blows of a two-year-old wannabee.  If you were a two-year-old accepting the blows from a champion prize-fighter, that would have an opportunity for humility.
 
 

Written 7/10/95
(c) 1999  Earl Babbie