Finding the Gift

[GliderGuider]

10. The spiral is my model of life too.

I've noticed that as I go through life, the same "stuff" comes up over and over again. Each time it does I work to resolve it, but apparently I can only resolve the aspects of it that are (visible from / relevant to) that turn of the spiral. Then later on I encounter what turns out to be the very same stuff, just on a slightly higher level. So I resolve that manifestation of it, and then later on... And so it goes.

When I first noticed this pattern, I felt a terrible wash of despair - it felt like none of my lessons were staying learned. But that just turned out to be another piece of "stuff" that needed work. Now I notice the same thing about recurring themes in my life, but my perspective on it is different - I'm a couple of turns further along the spiral.

Issues never seem to get fully resolved, they just deconstruct into more and more subtle forms, in order to teach slightly different and subtler lessons.