doomed?

Everyday brings something new. Everyday you try to adjust, to adapt and to alter your daily life to accommodate the ever changing world. But sometimes, there seems there is nothing that you can do but try and make it through another day. Why must life be so complicated? Why are some days simply excruciating to survive? So, you have to ask yourself: Are these difficulties, this drama, of your own design? Or is pre-destined? Has the story of your life been predetermined, with nothing that can be done to change the order? Are the lessons we learn throughout our lives, from making mistakes, a stepping stone to the next obstacle? Must we learn from the here and now to move to on to tomorrow? 

There is theory among believers of reincarnation that we are doomed to repeat the same life, reliving the same mistakes and problems until we have learned all we can from them. Only then will you ascend to the next level of awareness, where you will be presented with new life lessons to experience and learn from. If this is the case, then are our attempts to be happy in this life futile? If this life is to learn specific lessons, then what pleasure, what happiness can be truly had? And where do you go from here?