We are here for a reason, or many reasons, and many missions. And we go when we have achieved them. Not in a reincarnation kind of way (though I believe we can reincarnate, and not just if it's decided, but also if we want), but... my own personal theory is that we are here to learn love and to teach love.
There are parts of your reasoning (and feeling? probably not yet?) where you half touch this. I'd like to offer you this view of mine, and have your thoughts on... not how Lucky being here helped you become a "functioning" adult, but on the love. It looks evident, he was such a companion, and how he helped you through your parents' divorce... but I'd like to offer you this, if I may.
I'm obviously very biased by my own religion (I'm a Catholic, European), and the fundamental concept of Love, more than God's Plan (and sometimes I fear I drift away from the Church in some of my New Age ideas, but I have my own way of integrating it :p ). I believe very much that we, as souls, doesn't matter if we're human or pets, have a saying in our world, and in more ways than just the idea of Free Will (or maybe it can all be encompassed in the concept of Free Will, only maybe my concept of it is different - an evolution of paradigms?).
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Date: 2006-09-22 03:17 pm (UTC)We are here for a reason, or many reasons, and many missions. And we go when we have achieved them. Not in a reincarnation kind of way (though I believe we can reincarnate, and not just if it's decided, but also if we want), but... my own personal theory is that we are here to learn love and to teach love.
There are parts of your reasoning (and feeling? probably not yet?) where you half touch this. I'd like to offer you this view of mine, and have your thoughts on... not how Lucky being here helped you become a "functioning" adult, but on the love. It looks evident, he was such a companion, and how he helped you through your parents' divorce... but I'd like to offer you this, if I may.
I'm obviously very biased by my own religion (I'm a Catholic, European), and the fundamental concept of Love, more than God's Plan (and sometimes I fear I drift away from the Church in some of my New Age ideas, but I have my own way of integrating it :p ). I believe very much that we, as souls, doesn't matter if we're human or pets, have a saying in our world, and in more ways than just the idea of Free Will (or maybe it can all be encompassed in the concept of Free Will, only maybe my concept of it is different - an evolution of paradigms?).
What do you say?