Thought Provoking You This Evening?

I also find it hard to name my discussions. Since a lot of people here only read the title it can be a real challenge to find a title that captures their imagination. Having said that I have been racking my brain trying to think of a time when I learned from being happy and I can think of is that happiness is a nice relief from pain but it never lasts. I have learned most from my pain, it is the struggle, the challenges that make us grow. If life is only happiness we do not progress as spirits. I read a theory once that fascinated me as it suggested that we are born on Earth to experience things that will make us grow in certain areas. It also suggested that we choose our parents to give us a certain life path. It was not saying that our lives are planned for us but that by choosing who our parents are we set a certain series of possibilities for learning into play. I like the idea. My family was particularly difficult and gave me a very strange life path with a great deal of pain, turmoil anguish etc and I have learned a great deal in my life. My spirit has grown. So yes I would say that we learn most through pain and struggle and how we deal with those moments in time shape us as people and our spirits.