I have a theory, and here it is:
Life will keep repeating itself until you’ve learned your lesson.
So if you’re a perfectionist and you always seem to lose everything in your attempts to have everything, you will keep losing everything until you’ve learned the lesson that it’s ok to have a little bit, instead of constantly being unhappy that you don’t have it all.
I can keep listing other examples but this seems to be the main lesson that’s been repeating itself in my life throughout the past decade. Through some combination of perfectionism, lack of patience and discipline, I’ve gotten myself into this cycle of having, and having not, then scratching my head wondering where it all went wrong when I know full well how it all went wrong.
But that’s my theory. I don’t know if it’s true. It has no scientific backing, and I’m not qualified to speak on legitimate life theories, but I always believe it helps to be able to pinpoint a problem before you can address it and potentially make your life better.
Having said that, what life scenarios see to be repeating in your life? And could it be that they are repeating themselves because you’ve yet to learn the lesson they have to teach you?
by Jason Lam