wielding our personal power, choosing freebirth

It occurred to me today that sometimes, people repeat the patterns of others in their lives, or of people they know or read about, as if they need to experience those lessons for themselves, but first they need a "primer" on how the situation might unfold.

For example, my friend is pregnant with her 3rd baby, just now. When I met her, she was having her first, and I was having my third.

She was a steadfast and loyal friend to me throughout all my crisis-thinking, paranoia, fear and worry to do with my impending divorce, how to proceed with creating a life with my (then-new) current partner, etc etc.

Perhaps her empathizing with me at that time opened her heart and mind to the possibility of a similar situation in her own life, or else, that she intuitively knew that she needed to dig deeper into my situation for her own development and growth.

See, she's now in the middle of a very bitter, difficult divorce from the dad of her older two children, and newly pregnant with her third--very much in love with a new man - all echoing the situation I was in when we first met.

Of course, the logistics of her situation are difficult right now. But I know that she'll be all right. And I bet she knows that too.

A semi-related topic: Another friend of mine is going through some interesting and huge changes in her....paradigm of life, at the moment, and it occurred to me how well she wields her own personal power.

These changes are huge, potentially scary, and carry that reality-altering sense of "I could never have imagined this in my wildest dreams", and yet, she's the one actively wishing them into existence, creating them from her own zealous, rich desires, and being dazzled by the rewards she's reaping.