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...
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.
Jihad of the Nafs (The Struggle of the Soul)
sigh
Its about enjoying the journey.
Goals will come and go as will lessons, but they are not where you get your enjoyment from.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
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.
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
You don't need to think like that. Just go about your life, and when stuff happens, you just learn lessons from it.
That's a good way of looking at it.
Love is a serious mental disease.
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.
yep, agreed
@ s.b.f - why are you sighing?
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi
yep, that me. i love to know the 5W's of everything
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
Must have felt like sighing at the time.
So do I! especially the "why" !
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi