[00:09.75]A Full-Time School Called Life
[00:14.39]You are enrolled in a full-time school called "life".
[00:19.27]Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons.
[00:25.02]You may like the lessons or hate them,
[00:28.15]but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.
[00:32.08]Why are you here?
[00:34.27]What is your purpose?
[00:35.90]Humans have sought to discover the meaning of life for a very long time.
[00:40.97]What we and our ancestors have to overlook,
[00:45.29]however, is that there is no one answer.
[00:48.29]The meaning of life is different for every individual.
[00:52.42]Each person has his or her own purpose and distinct path,
[00:57.54]unique and separate from anyone else's.
[01:01.17]As your travel through your lifetime,
[01:04.54]you may encounter challenging lessons that others don't have to face,
[01:09.36]while others spend years struggling with challenges
[01:13.11]that you don't need to deal with.
[01:15.36]You cannot be sure why you struggle financially
[01:18.67]while your peers enjoy abundance.
[01:21.42]The only thing you can count on for certain is
[01:25.36]that you will be presented with all the lessons
[01:28.36]that you specifically need to learn;
[01:31.05]whether you choose to learn them
[01:33.36]or not is entirely up to you.
[01:36.05]The challenge here, therefore,
[01:38.18]is to fit in with your own unique path
[01:41.99]by learning individual lessons.
[01:44.55]This is one of the most difficult challenges
[01:47.55]you will be faced with in your lifetime,
[01:50.05]as sometimes your path will be radically different from others.
[01:55.18]But, remember, don't compare your path to the people around you
[02:00.18]and focus on the great difference
[02:02.28]between their lessons and yours.
[02:04.97]You need to remember that you will only be faced with lessons
[02:09.60]that you are capable of learning
[02:11.66]and are specific to your own growth.
[02:14.66]Our sense of fairness is the expectation of equity,
[02:20.47]the assumption that all things are equal
[02:23.22]and that justice will always prevail.
[02:26.04]Life is not, in fact, fair,
[02:28.74]and you may indeed have a more difficult life path
[02:32.74]than others around you, deserved or not.
[02:36.12]Everyone's circumstances are unique,
[02:39.24]and everyone needs to handle his or her own circumstances differently.
[02:44.79]If you want to move toward peace,
[02:47.29]you will be required to move out of
[02:49.85]the complaining phase of "it's not fair".
[02:52.54]Focusing on the unfairness of circumstances
[02:56.42]keeps you comparing yourself with others
[02:59.35]rather than appreciating your own special uniqueness.
[03:02.60]You miss out on learning your individual lessons
[03:06.54]by distracting yourself with feelings of bitterness and resentment.