Everything That Happens Teaches You Precisely What You Need to Learn in This Moment

I've revised and improved this posting from 2023. I've had the impression since childhood that the universe is trying to teach me things. In fact, that's what This All is. Especially the friction; the "bad" stuff. I'm not trying to shine some positive light on it - Mr. Optimist constructively framing the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. It's not a "spin". For me, it's a fully-formed point of view that's stood the test of time. My conviction rests on two elements: I detect intention. Nothing supernatural. Not some lofty "Guy". Something more...tectonic. And unmistakably intelligent. Second: the timing is never random. Everything that ever happened seemed to teach me precisely what I needed to learn in that moment. I'm not presupposing some meaningful magical orchestration. It's more like being caught in an inexplicable machine, challenged to reverse-engineer its nature and operating principles — and, more mysteriously, my own nature and operating principles. Gradually, the…