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Spiritually speaking, when you walk a path that is laid out for you by others then you miss or avoid facing the challenges and lessons you intended for yourself before you incarnated. When that happens you get to come back and try again. What did you sign up for in this life? Are you fulfilling the expectations you set up for yourself? Or are you fulfilling someone else’s expectations?
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That is an amusing paradox: Who is to say that following the path another has laid out for me is not where I will encounter the challenges and lessons I've intended for myself? After all, if much of this is pre-planned, then perhaps I've also had a hand in selecting the time, the era, the society, the parents, and whatever else that have led to this conflict.
And who is to say that the lesson to be learned is not self-sacrifice?
Consider: I am not where I want to be. If I change direction, I am not where someone else wants me to be. I want something different, and I want not to offend.
It is not that our wants conflict that is the problem; it is the wanting itself.
Operating from wants or expectations feeds this engine, until someday I find myself on the other side of the problem with my children defying my wants.
Do what you
will, not what you
want.