lucky in life - payback for past life?

[Klara]

hi there

I may just be ranting ramdonly here, but pleas excuse my mental wanderings because I'd love to know if you guys have any thoughts on this as you are usually all so perceptive!

I catch myself sometimes asking myself what I did in my last life to justify the good fortune I have in this one. My friends always tell me that I have everything - a lovely husband, nice parents who gave me a wonderful childhood,a beautiful sweet child, nice home, a great career in which I am doing well and a lots of nice friends. I basically have pretty much everything I could ask for.....

I sometimes wonder why as I don't think I'm particularly brilliant or clever.

klara

Was reading something at the weekend, which happened to say, if someone goes through life without many problems they're a young soul. Someone with many problems are an older soul who can take and overcome the problems the universe sends them. I must be an old soul! Problems are life's lessons to be learned.

I think you most likely have a generally optimistic / positive outlook

I feel fairly lucky too but if you look back on my life there have been occasions of great trial

maybe its just that I have the memory span of a small gnat that I totally forget them all

sorry not deep or meaningful - am slightly worse for wear this morning - SNURK

that's interesting Xannie as a psychic I once saw thought the opposite - i.e. that the fewer prpoblems you encountereed this time the older soul you were, as you had learned all the lessons to be learned and were allowed a period of ease and grace as payback for previous trials.

She was a somewhat bizarre character whoe told me that this was probably to be my last journey on thisplane of existence and that afterwards I would progress to the next level - whatever that means....

oh well - i'm grateful anyway. Maybe it is just optimism and a "let's just sort it out" attitude that's got me this far. I'll never know....

I think that's a dodgy line of thinking. Are we to conclude that people who are unlucky in life (perhaps those with a chronic disabling disease)have committed some heinous crime in a previous life?

Dodgy.

I agree with hmc to a point, i was recently talking with a friend who is having a very shite time, whilst talking about a person who has particularly upset i said 'what comes around goes around' which prompted the response, 'well what have i done to deserve all this shit' My supposedly supportive comment actually wasn't in the slightest bit reassuring.

It is I agree an important point - I have meet people who seemed resigned to their "fate" and so expect bad things to continually happen to them. Defeats the entire purpose of life and is most unfortunate

Klara you mentioned you had a great childhood. This is such a good basis and beginning to life. It does not always make it, but to have that grounding goes along way, inside happiness and its reflection in your outside life. Could well have set the way for you to have a happy, positive attitude and life.

You don´t have to have high intelligence to have a good life. It is great that you appreciate what you have, not always worry about what you don´t have. We westerners forget how lucky we really are sometimes when we impose self suffering in our lives.

I believe you map out your own life, whether you realise it or not by the choices you make.

my dad is quite spiritual etc and actually thinks that he remembers being re-born! yes strange I know but he remembers begging to be given a second chance promising that he would be good this time and then he was whisked down a dark tight tunnel, saw a bright light, heard a baby crying and then nothing is remembered after that point.
My dad has led a great life and he is a great man.

I think in each life you have different lessons to learn. Maybe you will find another area of your life challenging this time round

It was in a book by Mia Dolan, her second book. Don't know much about old and new souls, just find it all very interesting in a mainly mundane existence!

klara, i think it's wonderful that you have so much nice stuff going for you, past and present and i hope for the future too.
i think what you are thinking about might be karma. eventhough i am a buddhist, i still have trouble grasping that concept.
my uncle is a racist and his daughter has afro hair and dark skin. she also married a morrocan man. she thinks it is his punishment for being a racist.