I sometimes think of life as a book we wrote from full consciousness before stepping into the play and assume the roles we have chosen in order to learn things or rather how to learn them .
The people we meet, the situations we are finding ourselves in, the interests we have are all part of a plot we layed down.The plot has some main guide lines from which we make choices . And we play the same piece a number of times until we grasp and master everything we need to know . This would account for the feeling of " déjà vu " that we sometimes experience. In that sense everything that happens to us is welcome . There is no need to fear anything or to defend oneself against but only remember we wrote the story in the first place so rather go with it and follow the flow and be wise enough to go round the traps we ourselves have layed down
Kindness
mudra