In my childhood, every time when I got small misfortune such as lightly injured, scratched, or catching a cold, elders would tell me “it is good to take a small misfortune to balance out.” What they meant was that the small misfortune had spared me to have a bigger misfortune. The bottom line is that the Universe always takes a balance between good luck and bad luck; Yin and Yang.
When things are not going well for a while, we can expect something good is going to come to us very soon. Since we already have gone through some tough and hard days, in order to balance out, there will be only room for easy and mellows days on the other side.
For example, after going through unemployed, breaking up with our boyfriend/girlfriend, being treated badly by our school teacher or supervisor, the next thing we can expect is to receive an unexpectedly great job offer, to meet a new person whom we feel strong connection with, or to be rewarded for our hard working contributions at our company.
On the other hand, when things have been going pretty well for a while, instead of waiting for some bad things, there are some technique for us to take. In order to balance out, we can donate some money to our favorite organizations, to give away thank-you gifts to our friends and family, or to offer our volunteer work to the local community. By doing these some help to others, we can avoid bad things to happen.
This is the wisdom that have been passed down from elders to us in order to live our daily life appreciatively. We appreciate for smaller injury or smaller sickness because they might have spared us for any other possible bigger troubles or unfortunates. We appreciate other people when they accept our small offers of gifts and donations because they have contributed to balance out our debt for our happiness.
In our daily life, we all have some type of rhythm going up and down. Let’s appreciate both ways; rainy days and sunny days, happy days and tough days. And please have a faith that everything has been evolving. Everything is supposed to turn out well in the end; even tough experiences, as long as we learn something from them.
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