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Life Lessons

Passage 37. Life Lessons Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away

that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson,

or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be

a roommate, a neighbor, a professor, a friend, a lover, or even a complete stranger but when you lock eyes with them,

you know at that very moment they will affect your life in some profound way. Sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful, and unfair at first,

but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, willpower, or heart.

Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck.

Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul.

Without these small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved straight flat road to nowhere.

It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless. The people you meet who affect your life,

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