Many times are there people and situations that come into your life to teach you lessons or provide opportunities for further advancement in the growth of the soul. Sometimes these lessons are hard because we often fail to recognize the lesson when it is presented to us, and many times, we ignore the teacher because of our need to satisfy the wants of the ego. In such cases, we are presented again and again with the same hard lesson, perhaps in different forms and varying degrees of intensity, until we recognize the lesson, learn from it, and move on.