Can Bad Be Good?

Can bad be good? Can circumstances that seem bad right now really be for our good later?  When we move past the shock, disappointment and pain, can we find that sometimes we are forced into things that are really better for us?  Would we ever really choose to move on, to change our lives, to shake up our comfort zone unless absolutely forced into it?  I think probably not.  I think none of us would choose the difficult situations that life hands us.  We don't choose layoffs, foreclosures, bankruptcy, diseases, aging, problems, grief.  Is there good in the bad, though?  Is there light at the end of the tunnel?  Sometimes it takes us a long time so see the good, and sometimes it is quite obvious right away. Sometimes we can use the situations we have endured to be a help to others.  Sometimes when we were a single struggling weed in one environment, we find we have blossomed into a full and beautiful garden in another. Attitude is a huge part of how we navigate life.  If we look for the good, or expect something good it may be more readily seen.  Some change is very difficult.  The kind of change we don't have a say in-the kind of change that is thrown at us without any regard for our wishes.  Some change is wonderful....for our family a wedding and now the joy of a new life coming into our family, for others, change comes with graduation, moving, loss of jobs. We are all going to experience both. I think it is important not to compare ourselves with others...not to say, why do they get this or that and I don't, or how can this happen to me and not them.  And sometimes it is easier to be objective when it isn't involving us personally, but to all my friends/family who have graduated, lost jobs, gained new jobs, experienced loss of gained joy I want to remind you in the words of Aerosmith: "Life's a journey, not a destination."