The first soul group consists of souls who make a "contract" with one another, before coming into their current incarnation, to help each other with the spiritual lessons we choose to learn in each of our lifetimes, on this physical plane of existence. These souls can present themselves, as your parents, siblings, children, relatives, friends, lovers, spouses, bosses, co-workers, enemies, or acquaintances. Or they may come and go in your life, in a one time casual encounter. They may play a major part your entire life, or they may come into our lives, just until the lesson is learned, the work between you completed, and than depart....... or they may just be someone who has a message to bring you that you need to hear at that moment in time.... These soul group members, often choose to come back, time and time again, throughout many of our incarnations..... Sometimes because the lessons may not have been completed during a previous lifetime, and sometimes they are there just for support & love throughout your life. Sometimes, you can recognize, these souls in this particular soul group, if you are open. It may be someone you meet, who you swear you have seen, or known before, though you know for certain you have not, or someone you have an instant connection with, or feeling of love....or it could even be someone you instantly dislike, with no logical reason why. These lessons, we teach each other, may not always be easy lessons to learn. They may cause us great anguish and pain, which we may need to go through, and not understand why at the time, until it is later understood, the spiritual growth, that has occurred. Only than, may we realize, the "gift" this other person has given us, despite the pain, and how very much they must love us, to agree to do this for our spiritual growth. Understanding this, is helps lead to forgiveness of those who have hurt us in our lifetimes..... We choose the experiences and the hardships we go through on this plane, and we choose who will help us here, with our spiritual lessons. ~Tala 1998