It had frustrated me for years, the same difficult circumstance and my struggle to deal with it. I wondered why it was necessary.

“Every experience is to enable you help someone else,” the messenger said.

“Wait a minute,” I said. (Sometimes I argue with my messengers.) “I thought experiences were for personal growth.”

“The primary purpose of every experience is to enable you to help someone else,” the messenger reiterated. “You get the secondary benefit of personal growth.”

That brief exchange—mostly one-sided, I admit—reversed my view of life. It moved me from thinking of difficult experiences as personal tests to embracing them with two simple questions: 

What can I learn from this? &  How can I use it to help others?

Those two questions shift my compass to a much broader perspective.

I’m not saying this message applies to anyone else. I’m just sharing what the messenger said to me.

If it resonates with you, Namaste.