Some People Are Lucky, Others Attract Chaos: Understanding Your Soul’s Journey

There are people who seem to glide through life with everything falling into place, and others who can’t catch a break no matter how hard they try. After years of doing readings and connecting with spirits, I’ve come to understand that what we call “luck” and “chaos” are often part of a much bigger picture – your soul’s path and the lessons you came here to learn.

The Souls Who Came for Easy Lessons

Some people incarnated with what I call “graduate-level souls” – they’ve done the heavy lifting in previous lifetimes and are here for lighter lessons. These are the people who seem naturally blessed, who find opportunities easily, who have an inner knowing that things will work out.

When I connect with their spirits and guides, I often see that they’re here to experience joy, to share their gifts, to help others, or to master gentler lessons like creativity, leadership, or service. Their path doesn’t require struggle because struggle isn’t what their soul needs to grow.

These souls often have strong spiritual teams supporting them because their mission requires them to be stable and successful. They need to be in a position to help others, so the universe clears obstacles from their path.

The Souls Learning Through Challenge

Then there are the people who seem to attract one crisis after another. From a spiritual perspective, these are often souls who chose more difficult lessons for this lifetime. They might be here to learn forgiveness, resilience, self-worth, boundaries, or how to break generational patterns.

When spirits show me these people’s life paths, I can see that the chaos isn’t random – it’s carefully designed to give them opportunities to develop specific strengths. Every challenge is a chance to choose differently than they have before, to heal old wounds, or to develop spiritual qualities they came here to master.

The Woman Who Understood Her Path

I’ll never forget a reading I did with a woman named Catherine whose life had been one disaster after another – multiple divorces, financial ruin, health crises, family drama. She felt cursed, but when her deceased mother came through, the real story emerged.

Her mother showed me Catherine’s soul contract – the agreement she’d made before incarnating. Catherine had chosen a challenging path specifically to break patterns of addiction, abuse, and financial instability that had plagued her family line for generations. Every crisis was an opportunity to choose healing instead of repeating old patterns.

“You didn’t come here for an easy life,” her mother told her through me. “You came here to be the one who changes everything for future generations.”

Understanding this shifted everything for Catherine. Instead of feeling victimized by her circumstances, she began to see each challenge as part of her spiritual curriculum. She started asking, “What is this here to teach me?” instead of “Why is this happening to me?”

Within two years, her life transformed. Not because the lessons stopped coming, but because she learned to work with them instead of against them. She developed the resilience, wisdom, and strength her soul had come here to cultivate.

The Factors That Shape Your Experience

Your life experience is shaped by several key elements that work together:

Your Soul’s Lesson Plan: Some souls chose advanced courses in forgiveness, healing trauma, or breaking cycles. Others chose easier lessons in creativity, leadership, or joy. Neither path is better – they’re just different curriculums.

Inherited Patterns: You inherit energetic blueprints from your family lineage that either support or challenge your soul’s goals. Sometimes you’re here specifically to heal these inherited patterns.

Your Spiritual Team: Depending on your soul’s mission, you’ll have different levels of spiritual support. Some people have strong protection because their work requires stability. Others have less intervention because learning to overcome obstacles is part of their path.

Free Will Choices: Even with a soul contract, you always have choice in how you respond to circumstances. You can learn your lessons through suffering or through wisdom, through resistance or through acceptance.

Why Some People Struggle More

If you’re someone whose life feels harder than others’, it doesn’t mean you’re being punished or that you’re less deserving of good things. From a spiritual perspective, it often means your soul is ambitious – you chose challenging lessons because you were ready for accelerated growth.

Many people who struggle are here to be healers, teachers, or wayshowers. They’re developing compassion, wisdom, and strength that they’ll use to help others. Their difficult experiences aren’t meaningless – they’re part of developing the very qualities that will make them powerful forces for good.

Working With Your Path

Once you understand that your experiences might be part of a larger spiritual curriculum, you can work with your path instead of fighting it. This doesn’t mean becoming passive or accepting abuse – it means asking yourself what each situation is here to teach you and how you can grow from it.

People who embrace their lessons tend to move through them faster. People who resist or play victim to their circumstances often repeat similar patterns until they’re ready to learn what the situation is offering.

The Ultimate Truth

Here’s what spirits consistently tell me: there are no victims, only souls having different experiences for different reasons. Some came for easy lives because that serves their purpose. Others came for challenging lives because that serves theirs.

Your current circumstances aren’t a reflection of your worth – they’re a reflection of your soul’s courage in choosing lessons that will help you grow into who you’re meant to become.

Understanding this can transform how you see your life. Instead of feeling unlucky or cursed, you can see yourself as a brave soul who chose an advanced spiritual curriculum because you were ready for it.

Love, XO

-Matt