NaturallyResilient

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Have we gotten too busy? It is almost like we are living several lives in our one life of 70 or 80 years.

With divorce and remarriage we enter new relationships. Each relationship is there to teach us something. Sometimes it is the same lesson over and over until we finally get it or give up. Sometimes each relationship is totally different from the previous one. Our relationships are often our greatest spiritual growth tool while we are on this plane. Just 100 or 200 years ago, divorce was rare and someone was looked upon as defective if they left their spouse. That one relationship was meant to last a lifetime, until death do us part.

The same can be said about careers. People have no lifelong attachment to their employer mainly because the employer has no lifelong commitment to the employees. A hundred years ago, this was different, but now not only do we change jobs every few years but we also change careers every 5 – 10 years. Are you doing the same thing you were 10 years ago? Are you in the same line of work? Is it drastically different? Often it is. We can live several lives in one lifetime just by drastic changes in our career. This was unheard of 100 – 200 years ago.

What about where you live? I have heard the average American moves every 3 years! It may be next door or it may be across the nation or even internationally. Years ago people tended to live and die in the same town they were born in. I am amazed nowadays when I run into someone who has never been out of state or has always lived in the same town. I think that most American came from adventurous stock. We came here from other countries; seeking adventure, seeking a new way of life, looking for something we could not describe while our more sedate neighbors stayed rooted in the homeland. Therefore Americans do tend to move around more even today. We are not afraid of adventure, heck we often seek it! So we move. Pioneers moved west seeking a better life. Even today we move seeking a new and better place.

What kind of changes have been going on in your life in the last decade?