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Pain changes people
Life will test you
just before it will bless you.
Some of the best changes in life result from the most painful experiences. We
need to experience low points in our life in order to gain the wisdom, strength
and knowledge we need to appreciate the high points.
When we experience low points on our journey towards change, life can feel
confusing and challenging. It’s extremely difficult to trust the process and to
have faith that good things will follow. But we need to remember that, using
the lessons we learn along the way, we can make better choices going
forward. If you’ve had your heart broken before, you might decide to pay
more attention when picking a partner. This might lead you down the path to
finding your soulmate – someone who treats you much better than anyone
ever has before.
Every choice you make leads to more choices. As you go about your day-to-
day life, remember that if you make just one different choice, you may
experience a completely different day. Imagine a boy going to meet a girl at
the cinema for their first date. The boy decides to eat something before he
goes, and consequently his stomach becomes unsettled. He then has to visit
the bathroom and ends up leaving late for the date. The girl gets tired of
waiting and leaves the cinema a few minutes before he arrives.
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As he arrives at the cinema and realizes that she’s gone, he heads back home,
only to bump accidentally into a girl whom he has an instant attraction to.
Now imagine they both get talking, fall in love, get married and have kids.
All this occurs purely because he missed his actual date.
Everything is connected. If something tragic has happened in your past, think
of something good that’s happened recently – they’re linked. That first event
somehow created different choices in you, which led to you experiencing
something good.
Sometimes we have to take a look back at the events in our life and start
connecting the dots. There was probably a reason for each occurrence. If we
look carefully, things might start making sense. If they do, surely we can be
certain that all future events, whether they bring us pain or pleasure, have a
purpose.
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