Good Times

  The reality of life is that it is the hard times that cause us to learn and grow as people. Whereas the fun and the good times, though necessary, add little if anything to our knowledge about life. If you were to look back in your memory at the good times in your life, you will find them harder to remember as time passes, because the details about that time will become less and less available to you. But the opposite is true for the hard times, especially those times of extreme trouble and tribulations, and that the details of those times will remain all too clear! I think that perhaps this is because little if anything is learned from the good times? But in those times when we have experienced difficulties and trouble, these will remain painfully clear. The good times are just that, good times, times of fun and enjoyment, necessary only in that they provide us with a way of escape from the mundane, and the difficulties that is the reality of our lives, but add almost nothing to our knowledge and understanding of that life.
  So then, it is our trials and tribulations that cause us to grow as people. Where the good times, however desirable as they might be, add little if anything. It is widely accepted that a person who has had little in the way of problems in their lives is usually a dull person, dull not only in wisdom, but dull in personality.
Surely no one desires to have bad things happen in their lives and to have a hard life, but these will come anyway, no matter your station in life. So the next time you find yourself having trouble in life, keep in mind that you cannot run from it, at least not for long, but that you can certainly learn from it.
So try to keep those hard times at bay as best you can, but when they do occur, embrace them for what they are meant for, as a learning experience. That is what history is really all about. Not as just a compilation of stories from the past, but rather as lessons to be learned to avoid the bad things, and as a way as to how we can keep from repeating those mistakes that led to those things. History is meant to be learned from, not only in the larger sense, but also in the personal. Because if you learn from the mistakes in your life, you are less apt to repeat them, therefore having less of the bad times, and more of the good!