Some Experiences Leave Indelible Mark

In the end, some of us are very strong and survive. Others are not as strong, and cannot weather the bad things.

thats life.there is a good and there is a bad things. we just have to move on and be a better person.

Like you, I've learned from the bad things (and the bad people) and have been able to put them behind me.

I believe we can change for the better and while it might seem impossible to ever meet the partner you've always wanted waiting for the right person might be what's needed. Most of us get tired of waiting. It'll not too say that we shouldn't date or spend time with those we think we might get along with because if we never spend time with others how will we know what we want and what were looking for. The pic you found is pretty.

I remember your problems at work with those few nasty people. Time to move on and put the past where it belongs. I may forgive, but I never forget.

I think that a problem with thinking that life is about lessons teaching us, is that we can overlook the effects on others then too. Life is one big oneness, and the individual lessons, seemingly learnt, are more for that oneness's benefit, that for our own benefit. This world boils down to being really God's world, and we have to humbly accept that, and serve him as best we can in it, picking up the threads of any learnings, and understandings, along the way. The Christian Bible gives many examples of where God tests one individual, at the expense of another, though, and so some parts of his oneness must be playing greater parts than others are, I would think then too. There is one example from the Bible where God told Abraham to kill his own son, Isaac, and to burn him alive on a rockpile, as a living sacrifice for himself, God. Now, God, intervened again just as Abraham was about to set fire to his son, and to stick a huge knife through his heart, just in the nick of time. It was then said that this was a way that God was testing Abraham's faith in himself. Now this might be so, but the cannon fodder here was the poor son. He would never have trusted his father again, and his life would have been greatly affected by this terrible incident, perhaps for the rest of his life. God didn't care less about Isaac, though it seems; his focus was only upon his favourite son, Abraham. So, I think we should never selfishly think that life is just about ourselves, and its setting unique lessons only for us too. Life is just life. We just live it, and can try to learn from it, but we should not think that it exists only for ourselves as the top dog in it, learning some special tricks of our own from it. Such learnings can become attachments too, and we can become too proud of our own tricks then parading them off to others whenever we get the chance to do so.