If the lesson keeps returning, your answer probably has not changed.

A recurring lesson is not the world being unimaginative. It is the sign that the response you have been giving has not changed, so the situation keeps producing the same result and presenting the bill again. The circumstances vary enough to look new, which is what makes the repetition hard to spot.

When something familiar shows up again, look at what you did last time rather than at what happened to you. Then deliberately do one thing differently, even something small at the start. The lesson usually stops arriving once the answer does.