life's mean reds.

from The Alchemist -paulo coelho:

"He was learning a lot of new things. Some of them were things that he already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them."

isnt life like this sometimes? new situations, same lessons. but sometimes, we dont even realise that they ARE actually the same lessons that we are learning because we have been so used to the way we live our lives previously, so accustomed to the skills and abilities we use day in day out.Man, i guess, is a forgetful lot.

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