The Same Old Song

I'm reminded of this conversation I had with my friend like a month ago and she was saying that if you're always and constantly going through the same thing, it must mean that God is trying to teach you something from it, that you're meant to learn something from it otherwise it wouldn't keep happening. She was like that's something you have to figure out for yourself...maybe it's you, maybe it's how you;re handling the situation, but if it keeps happening, something has to change right. That really made me think...like it's something I never thought about, but if you're constantly facing the same situations or problems, clearly you're not learning something from the previous situations or you're not doing anything different and that's why it keeps happening. It's like writing a test, if you get the answer wrong the first time and you're given the same question, you're not going to keep writing the same answer because you know it's wrong...the question didn't change, so you have to change your answer. Or if you're doing a puzzle, playing a hard level in a video game or playing some sport...if one strategy isn't working, you don't keep doing the same strategy, you change it up...keep the things that worked or even change the game plan entirely. I guess that's kinda where I'm at...really trying to figure out what God's trying to teach me from the same situation and questions that keep coming up and changing how I approach it.

The phrase "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it" has never been more relevant.