When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson. Several years ago, Bill Murray starred in a movie called Groundhog Day, in which he woke up in the same day over and over until he learned all the lessons he needed to in that one day. Lessons will be repeated until learned. You will continually draw into your life people who need to enforce authority, and you will struggle with them until you learn the lesson of obedience.
Teenagers often perceive their parents as overly strict.
At the age of fourteen, one of my former students went away to boarding school. Much to her surprise, she found teachers and staff with the same rules that her mother had laid down at home and that I had at school. She finally understood. In couples' counseling it is often noted that people who divorce and remarry nearly always marry the same type of person they just left. Similarly, a friend of mine named Cassidy who was a compulsive perfectionist had a knack for attracting inappropriate men.