Introspective

[poliphilo]

 One chooses who one is going to be in one's current incarnation. One chooses in the hope of learning something- and then one takes the pluses with the minuses.   All experience is instructive, useful, enlightening.  I, for instance, have chosen to be an outlier this time round, a person on the edge of the camp, not a team player- with something of a knack for making myself invisible. The pluses are a critical eye and a certain immunity to the follies of the tribe. The minuses are that I get overlooked, taken for granted and am never going to be voted most popular in class. Them's the breaks. It would be silly to complain. Self pity is unattractive. The package is what it is. I am what I am. 

Comments

[cmcmck]

Which always makes me wonder why I needed to do what I needed to do.

I mean, I KNOW why I needed to do it but it suggests somebody got the incarnation wrong!

[poliphilo]

I don't think so. No-one is forced to live a difficult life. The upside is that the harder the life the more you're going to learn from it- and learning is what incarnation is all about. Also, when viewed from the other side of the veil, difficult lives don't look half as tough as they do when you're actually living them.

[mallorys_camera]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES.

I totally believe this.

I chose to be an Observer, too, though I think the Universe made it more difficult for me than for you: I was pretty invisible throughout my childhood, but then I went through many decades of hyper-visibility.

Now I'm invisible again! 😀 But, of course, visibility is addictive. So, I find myself fighting Cravings. 😀 And then I remind myself that, too, is part of the karmic lesson plan.

[poliphilo]

I chose a visible profession- and it was a bad fit. You can't disappear when you're standing at the altar or in the pulpit, though the priestly robes are a disguise of sorts.