This is a channeled answer from the Angels of the Tree of Life and we want you to know that when human beings come into their physical bodies it is for a purpose. Each human has a specific task to fulfill on earth and each human has his own lessons to learn on earth before he returns to his soul body on the other side. Many people go through tremendous hardships in their lifetime and this is for a purpose. When you do not think you can go on any more ask yourself what am I learning from this experience. If you think about it you will find the answer. Each soul comes into a physical body many times to learn the lessons it needs to learn on earth. The reality of the soul exists on the other side. The physical body is just a vehicle to give the soul a means of learning the lessons it needs to learn. When you return to your soul body, which is an energy body with consciousness and the ability to see and know all, you will understand who you really are. People need to understand that the physical body is just temporary and after they leave the physical body the physical body disintegrates and has no meaning. The meaning of life continues in the soul and the soul is developing and expanding all the time, moving closer and closer to God Most High. Each time the soul returns to a physical body it is called reincarnation and the soul returns on a higher level because it has already learned some of the lessons from before in another lifetime. Not everyone can accept what we are saying here because they have been taught other beliefs but when you each leave your physical body you will understand that you just move back into another realm and continue existing as an energy body. People need to realize that each person on earth is a soul in a physical body and all are created equal. The more that people realize this the more they can change their hateful feelings and understand that love is the only way man will have a chance to survive and continue to develop. When there is enough love between human beings there will be peace on earth.

Yes and i have come to the conclusion that i was put on this earth to pick up after my kids....

Yes, I question it all the time. I want to write, and I can't imagine not doing it, so realizing that that's what I wanted to do has made me feel better. Despite that, I still wonder what more I can and should do. I want to help people and leave this world knowing it's a better place for my kids. It sounds kind of silly and wishy-washy, but I want to do something, even if it seems small.

Being attached to raising the deer, Bharata gradually became neglectful of his meditation upon the Supreme Lord. He thus became distracted from the path of self-realization, which is the actual goal of human life. The Vedas remind us that the human form is obtained only after the soul undergoes millions of births in lower species of life. This material world is sometimes compared to an ocean of birth and death, and the human body is compared to a solid boat designed to cross this ocean. The Vedic scriptures and the saintly teachers, or spiritual masters, are compared to expert boatmen, and the facilities of the human body are compared to favorable breezes that help the boat ply smoothly to its desired destination. If, with all these facilities, a person does not fully utilize his life for self-realization, then he commits spiritual suicide and risks taking his next birth in an animal body. http://www.harekrishna.com/col/books/KR/cb/chapter4.html It is difficult for me to understand how life forms lower than human beings, such as plants, insects, and other animals, could have souls.... With that free will comes responsibility. Humans who misuse their free will have to loose it, at least for a time. Chapter 16 of the Bhagavad Gita describes such human beings as having to take birth in lower species of life. http://www.beliefnet.com/story/186/story_18677_1.html and migrate into all sorts of animals, reptiles, birds, beasts, and men, according to their rank and character, and even into vegetables, and minerals, there to serve on probation. If they passed without reproach their several graduations, they were permitted to become cows and men. http://www.harekrishna.com/col/books/KR/cb/chapter1.html It is not an endless cycle of birth and rebirth. It is meant to end after the human form, which is considered to be most evolved of species. Why? Because in the human form of life, one can question. Who am I? Where have I come from? What is the purpose of life? The lower species do not have that ability. If not, even as a human being, if one dies, then according to one's activities, karma, the soul would have to take another birth. It is not necessarily another human birth. If one's actions were very abominable, if one's consciousness was very degraded, then the desires one is left with at the time of death may force one to take a lower birth again in a lower species of life. This is called transmigration. http://www.atlantaharekrishnas.org/newsgroup/kcprinciples/0093.htm According to the Hindu tradition, 'a jiva (from the stage of a protozoan, perhaps) attains competence for a human body after undergoing 8,400,000 births (in lower forms of life). Brihad Vishnu Purana gives the details. http://www.vedanta-newyork.org/articles/concept_of_evolution.htm http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/magazine/vk/2006/01-2-1.asp According to Vedic knowledge, it is not necessarily so that a human will always reincarnate as a human being. If a man exhibits beastly character throughout his life, the low consciousness that he develops will see to it that he reincarnates as a beast. A glutton may take birth as a pig or another lower form of life. The Vedas talk about 8.4 million species of life, right from an amoeba up to human beings and demigods. A person can take any of these life-forms. Sometimes the soul will also remain in a standstill state for long periods of time without taking any body at all. http://www.stephen-knapp.com/vedic_culture_hinduism_a_short_introduction.htm The principal cause of rebirth as an animal is ignorance. In other words, the blind, heedless pursuit of one's animal-like desires, the preoccupation with eating, sleeping and sexual desire, and the disregard of developing one's mind to the practice of virtue and so forth lead one to be reborn as an animal. http://www.buddhanet.net/funbud10.htm GNOSTIC BELIEFS: By misconduct and neglect in life, a human being can descend downward (transmigrate) to a lower form of being which it once emerged from. Thus, a human soul can inhabit a sub-human body. Such a descent may involves a loss of enormous time in the spiritual evolution process. http://alandpeters.tripod.com/id21.html One who dies in ignorance is reborn as a lower creature (Bhagavad Gita, 14.15). According to this verse, if one develops the mode of ignorance, after his death he is degraded to an animal form of life. From there one has to again elevate himself, by an evolutionary process, to come again to the human form of life. Therefore, those who are actually serious about human life should take to the mode of goodness and in good association transcend the modes. http://veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/newage.htm Learned persons dedicated to Vedic culture are elevated by the mode of goodness to higher and higher positions. The mode of ignorance, on the other hand, forces one to fall headfirst into lower and lower births. And by the mode of passion one continues transmigrating through human bodies. Satha Patha Brahmana 11.25.21: http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/vedicsystem.htm

Yes all the time particularly when you constantly have to keep reassess over because the plan you have does not seem to be the same as what the Man upstairs has planned.

Yes many times and still cant get an answer.

no one has. eat, sleep, make money, only to pay taxes, and die. no questions asked, sounds simple to me...but talk about BORING!

do it all the time...

Almost everyone does. Hopefully living a good life without many regrets and enjoying the trip here and making a positive difference instead of a negative one.

Only every day of my life.

Yes. Everyday. *sighs*