Unaltered Voices

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation that shifted my entire perspective. Someone was telling me about what they were going through, and they explained that because they had experienced a similar test before, they now felt mentally strong enough to handle it again. At first, I froze. I couldn’t quite process what was being said. My conditioning had always taught me that when life tests us, we either pass or fail . For years, I believed that if a situation kept showing up, it meant I had failed the test. I carried that invisible “bad report card” in my spirit, thinking I was being punished or held back. But in that moment, something clicked. What if these tests weren’t failures at all? What if they were promotions? The truth is, many of life’s “tests” are brand new material. In school, teachers prepared us for exams. In life, though, some situations appear without warning because the lesson is meant to grow us into something we’ve never been before. There is no literal pass or f...