The Advanced Class

As we trudge wearily through the earth, we question time and again why we have been asked to comprehend so much.  Why have our lives been filled with such irony, such pain and such great loss?

 Why did that happen to me? Why did I lose so much? 

Why have events conspired against me so that I suffered such great and unnecessary loss?

So much time appears to have been wasted.  Feelings have been hurt. We have misunderstood each other, attacked one another, and then felt great sorrow realizing our mistake.

There was once a time, in a faraway place, where the decision was made. We are tired. We don't want to be here anymore. It is time to graduate. And so we find ourselves now in the advanced class, learning lessons well beyond our paygrade. Struggling to comprehend life's mysteries, trying to make sense of it all, we are caught in a trap of our own device.

Welcome to the Advanced Class.