Some people tell me, “We choose our parents before we are born..”
The idea behind this is, “stop blaming them and learn the lessons they were meant to teach you, and move on!”
The whole thing seems aimed at the foundational piece of work we call “accountability” – meaning, let go blaming externals for your circumstance, and address the only real changes you can make – changes to your self.
So, all in all, a good call, but a strange belief system to get there.
So, if I can indeed choose my parents before I was born, that implies some kind of “catalog” system, where you can choose from a variety of models. Perhaps, “blond or brunette”? Perhaps, “Hungarian or Australian”? Perhaps “angry, moody, creative vodka-drinkers as opposed to “camouflaged, repressed, white anglo-saxon protestants”?
It’s amazing what this “catalog of parents” might have looked like. Let’s back up here a bit: there’s many assumptions that would have to be in place to “buy in” to this little belief system, akin to the leap we need to make to “buy in” to any religion.
Since we’re “choosing” our parents, this decision-making process must require some kind of brain activity, such as the ability to perceive, see or sense the choices; then the discernment, judgment or intuition needed to make the “correct” choice, based on the “lessons” we need to learn; therefore memory cells that hold the lesson plan as well. So, it seems a “brain” of some kind would be needed, long before conception took place, in order to sift through these possibilities and weigh them out.
I got this great “communications” package a few months back from one of our local magnanimous Communications Giants. Phone, internet and TV all for a ridiculous price. How kind of them.
There is a sense of accumulation