In one of my essays on reincarnation I described my take on soul contracts and how they do not negate the existence of free will:

"I prefer my term — 'Lifecycle Improv Scripts'

I view the Lifecycle Improv Scripts as Larry David’s show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, on steroids — imagine 100 writers drafting a lifetime worth of improvisational scripts and the negotiations and debates as to who gets to play what roles in each other’s lives...I love the irony of this oft-quoted and misunderstood saying:

'Man Plans, and God Laughs.'

This statement is used to diminish the role that free-will has upon our lives — that we cannot defeat the universe’s scripts. The irony is that while our higher powers have to approve our scripts/outlines, we wrote them. I wonder what goes on in the Executive Producer’s lounge as Zoroaster and Vishnu and Shiva and Rama and Kali and Kama and the rest of the heads of our tribes negotiate the interplay of their charges’ life spans." https://medium.com/illumination-curated/life-is-school-for-the-soul-9b081dbe8453