Midlife’s A Trip

The Bat — Lessons from the Universe

Posted on 28. May, 2008 by Karen in Misc

Have you ever had a situation keep coming up over and over again in your life.  Maybe it’s a relationship with the same kind of wrong person.  Or a the same issue coming up again and again in your work life.  Now you may think this sounds kind of hokey but consider that a pattern of dealing with life issues that gives you a negative result is a sign that the Universe has a lesson for you.  And everytime you don’t learn the lesson, you’re doomed to repeat it — over and over and over again. 

Think of it this way.  Each time you are presented with the lesson and don’t get it, the Universe takes a baseball bat and smacks you in the head, metaphorically speaking.  But it may actually feel like that to you when you’re in the middle of the latest crisis.  I speak from experience. 

Every time you get hit with the bat, the blow hurts in a major way.  You may recover from the blow and bounce back but the “lump on your head” from the bat never quite goes away.  It’s always there as a permanent tender spot that hurts even worse the next time the lesson is presented, you don’t get it and the Universe smacks you again. 

Well you can’t undo what’s already happened in your life.  But you can stop making the mistake of thinking that you only have to deal with the present crisis.  At some point you have to learn the lesson.  If you don’t, inevitably the lesson presents itself again.  Sound familiar.  If it does, you have a chance to learn the lesson once and for all.

Instead of feeling that life is out to get you, see yourself at a fork in the road.  One path leads to “get the lesson, lead an easier life”.  The other is the baseball bat waiting to smack you again because again you didn’t get a lesson from the Universe.  A change in perspective can help you learn the lesson.  Then you can be out of the way the next time the bat swings. 

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