Learning Our Lessons

​Why do we keep making the same mistakes? Why do we end up in unhealthy relationships, or, in some cases, in toxic religions? We are drawn to the familiar, and often we leave one relationship—a personal relationship or one with a group of people—only to be drawn to something that closely resembles the former. If we’re lucky we make a better choice and things are at least marginally better, but often it’s not until we break free from the familiar and launch out into uncharted territory that we discover our lives take a dramatic turn for the better. Lessons are often learned slowly, and we repeat the same mistakes until we “get it.”