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Good Things Arising From Hard Times

30 Day Blogging Challenge

PROMPT March 21st
Write about good things that can come out of a bad situation. If you have an example from personal experience, please share!

Always remember - this too shall pass. Everything is temporary. I have been reading The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer and today's chapter talked about death and how it is a great teacher of life.

Yes, that sounds odd, but think about it. If you only had a week left to live, think how present and alive you would make those last moments on earth be... they would be precious. The thing is death can come at any moment. We should be living our lives as if that were the case because we all die. It is inevitable. How we experience life is up to us. Do we want to waste it on petty concerns or dive in and experience it fully.

That said, I would say, how we perceive a situation as good or bad is all relative. A situation is not one or the other, not really, it is our perception of it that pulls it one way or the other. How we react is determined by that perception. Learning that concept is a huge thing. What if we didn't react. What if we just experienced it as it occurred, staying in the present moment and breathing through it. Letting it pass through us. Not clinging to it or adding the melodrama we often do to that experience. What would happen then?

I think we would experience a sense of peace. Through all the chaos, there would be a sense of peace.

As for good things coming from bad situations... I feel that if my parents had not separated, I would still be living in Northern Ontario without the benefits of living in Southern Ontario. Would I have still gone on to University? Would I still have the great friends I have now? Part of me doubts it.
Don't get me wrong. I love Northern Ontario, but I find it small. Small in the sense of small minded or narrow thinking patterns. I love the natural aspects of it, but I found as a child I was not well received and I would have hated to grow up in that any more than I already had. Southern Ontario is more liberal minded and open. It fits with my general outlook. I always felt like I was on the outside looking in, when I lived up north.