I know you're joking, but as much as i've learned that my self worth doesn't come from making money, it doesn't come from bragging about losing it either :)
It is my firm belief that you are meant to learn certain things in life, and your subconscious very carefully and meticulously arranges your life circumstances to learn these things. This is why you often find yourself shaking your head and saying "I got myself into this".
@jeremyt care to elaborate on this thesis and wondering how you came to this conclusion, was it a self journey
I was attempting to keep religion out of it, but this is the Buddhist worldview.
I believe that my soul chose this life to learn what I'm learning. And whether I'm conscious of it or not, the "higher self" part of me hangs around in the background to ensure that I learn what I need to. This isn't typically what one would expect from what other religions would call a "guardian angel", but that's kind of how I see it.
Like, sometimes I can't take losses. That's deep family karma from being afraid of being poor. However, being unable to take losses means that you make poor decisions. Not being able to make good financial decisions makes people poor, and just continues the intergenerational cycle of poverty.
So, my unconscious "higher self" carefully arranges events such that I encounter maximum pain for going along with this karmic thing I'm supposed to transcend. The pain facilitates the learning, and thus the freedom from the karma.
Ultimately, the point of existence is to experience everything that can be experienced in every lifetime and learn everything that can be learned, resulting in ultimate freedom from karma and liberation from the cycle of birth and death.
Or, you can just meditate a lot, and I guess I'm working on that.
I'm not spiritual at all, but I did resonate with the Buddhist principle to acknowledge your emotions, rather than to react (or avoid) them. Something I'm trying to apply in my own life.
