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Lessons will repeat themselves
Life conditions you. It swings at you, it
kicks you while you’re down and it stamps
on you. And yet you survive and walk
around as the new and improved version of
yourself. Because the challenges that some
people still find hard, you have overcome.
The next time you pray for your situation to change, realize that you’re in that
situation so that 
you
can change. Life provides us with lessons that we can
handle and that will bring out the best in us. It then tests us to make sure
we’ve learned our lesson. Some of these tests are cruel and some are quite
lenient.
Occasionally we experience the same obstacles over and over again, because
we still have learning to do. It might be that we haven’t learned our lesson
properly. The best way to confirm if someone has learned their lesson is to
test them more than once, further down the line. I could give you a lesson
now, and as it would still be fresh in your mind, you’d probably be able to
pass a test on it quite easily.
However, if I gave you the same test a few months later, it would be more
challenging. This would be a true test of whether or not you have understood
what you’ve been taught. For example, if you rush a relationship with
someone you hardly know and then end up getting hurt, the lesson might be
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that you need to get to know someone before you jump into a relationship
with them.
Just
saying 
that you’ve learned your lesson is
not always enough – you have to
prove 
it.
So the Universe might then introduce you to someone else, someone who has
irresistible charm. To prove that you’ve learned your lesson, you have to
show it. If you jump into another relationship quickly, then there’s a chance
you might get hurt again. While you should take this example lightly, I hope
you can see that sometimes we’re given the same test more than once, and it
can be even harder the second or third time round.
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