The journey of life is filled with so many ecstasies, including the good, the bad, the painful and the not so pleasant. Perhaps it is not fair to life to expect everything to be fine all the time. One of the the major sources of our pain and hurt is selfishness. Everything else has to come to our satisfaction to make us happy.
Bad experiences teach good lessons.
They also prepare us for our missions in life. It is nice to fall in love, to get married, to have babies, to get a college education, to get a wonderful job and to live happily ever after. But, when love gets cold and marriage falls apart, when we lose our job and a best friend betrays us, we seem to experience one of the greatest emotional crash of our life. I remember a young man who married one of the most attractive ladies in town, everybody appreciated her beauty so much and put her on the cover of the town magazine every now and then. One day the young lady's high school sweet-heart came to town and visited her.