Do you call it life...or just a bunch of lessons? :/

TPOS —

Every situation is a lesson to be learned. From mundane chores to complex projects, life is always ready to teach you something.The lessons are usually not all that obvious. Yet they are there if you will think to take a look. The lessons are there in every moment, in every dilemma, in every frustration and every joy. They are there in every sadness, every victory, every discomfort and every pleasure. Each lesson you learn paves the way for a new and even more valuable one. Each lesson you ignore keeps coming back, again and again

What's the point of all these lessons?

Do we get to actually "Live"? (guess it depends on what you mean by living, eh?)

I don't want to think about EVERYTHING being a lesson. makes it all seem lame, pointless, negative stuff...

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Truth's_Razors — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 - 18:48

I think the concept of the 'lesson' is an end product which is actually something positive (because you've learnt how to deal with something - sort of like the saying 'knowledge is power') while the process of achieving this end goal is where i find the negativity lies - because realistically, you don't want to hear 'it's a life lesson' while you're in agony (assuming it's something that you're feeling pain for). But i do agree with the 'depends on what you mean by living' - everyone's different. (I think we're able to live easily after we learn these lessons - if that's at all possible!)

Saying that, i find myself saying 'It's a test' rather than 'It's a lesson'.
Hmm.

MuslimBro — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 - 19:01

[quote=ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE]I don't want to think about EVERYTHING being a lesson. makes it all seem lame, pointless, negative stuff...[/quote]
You don't need to think like that. Just go about your life, and when stuff happens, you just learn lessons from it.

Isha Al-Maghribi — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 - 15:30

[quote=Lilly]i like the idea of it being "lessons" for me, it means that whatever i went through, happiness, sadness,grief etc..there's something to get out of it, and it wasnt just a pointless thing that happened.[/quote]

That's a good way of looking at it.

TPOS — Thu, 4 Nov 2010 - 19:05

[quote=Truth's_Razors] because realistically, you don't want to hear 'it's a life lesson' while you're in agony (assuming it's something that you're feeling pain for).[/quote]

Yep, but i was talking about everything in life being a lesson. I don't know how to explain it, but basically i think the opposite of Lilly. I don't like the idea of seeing the good things as "lesson". Maybe the bad things, yes.

[quote=You]Its about enjoying the journey.

Goals will come and go as will lessons, but they are not where you get your enjoyment from.[/quote]

[quote=MB]You don't need to think like that. Just go about your life, and when stuff happens, you just learn lessons from it.[/quote]
yep, agreed 🙂

@ s.b.f - why are you sighing?

LookingToSee — Thu, 4 Nov 2010 - 21:27

[quote=ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE]

Yep, but i was talking about everything in life being a lesson. I don't know how to explain it, but basically i think the opposite of Lilly. I don't like the idea of seeing the good things as "lesson". Maybe the bad things, yes.

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yep, that me. i love to know the 5W's of everything 😃