Do We Really Benefit from Every Event or Experience in Some Way?

Do we really benefit from every event or experience in some way? 

Life is a constant process of learning and evolution. Life is continuously giving us opportunities to be a better person. As we are growing in wisdom, our choices are becoming more accurate, more sensible and consequently our life is becoming more harmonious. Indeed, we really benefit from every event or experience in some way.

We are like sculptures that life is crafting with his hands. Over a lifetime, this crafting helps us to become more mature. In other words, what leads us to become mature are the experiences that we accumulate during our life, even if they are good ones or bad ones. Coupled with this, there is another interesting point of a popular saying that says: “who does not learn by love, will learn by pain.”

There are two kinds of basic experiences that bring us maturity. Firstly, there are those people who have lived in love, peace, harmony and serenity: all of these help us to grow up without suffering. Furthermore, these experiences are always related to our pure and true feelings, such as a voice that comes from our heart. Secondly, there are those people who have lived with hate, fighting, disharmony and disruption because they are a result of our ignorance and lack of self-knowledge. Although, all of these bring suffering, they help us to grow up because we can transform these issues into wisdom.

Another key thing to remember is the acceptance behavior. When we accept who we are, with all our qualities and defects, without judgment or biases, throwing away our regrets, our whole life gains a new dynamic. However, accepting is very different from accommodating: accepting is knowing how we can learn from our experiences, no matter if they are good or bad ones.

This is a complex issue with no clear answers, but it seems reasonable to