We no longer celebrate others achievements, but are encouraged to live enjoying the misfortune of others. South Africa might get into the cup if team A loses, hopefully Western Province will make the Currie Cup if the Lions lose.
I think challenges in life are good and help build character but I don't think that one can justify hardships and misfortune with the idea that they will benefit themselves or others in the future.
I don't think it is necessarily how one reacts to hardships but how one reacts to anything in general. We just notice and romanticize overcoming hardship while making good decisions and following proper actions without obvious hardships are not as noticeable or poetic even if they are as beneficial.
We often do not learn life's lessons from easy and abundant living. We also do not grow as human beings by having it all. We do, however, begin to appreciate all we have when something or someone is taken from us.
The lessons we must learn through life take some time to create the caring, grateful, loving, understanding, patient, tolerant and thoughtful person we would all be blessed to become.
Time and experience benefit all beings. From hardship we may learn generosity and from misfortune we may learn kindness.
Life will always throw us a hand that we do not wish to play. It can be so unfair and so unyielding. All we can do is play the hand we're dealt and do the very best we can with it.
As time goes by and you look behind you...you'll know which lesson can
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