A Blessing in Disguise.

Yes,sometimes bad things happen in us could be a blessing in disguise. Once i had a friend whom i trusted too much. She's almost a sister to me,actually,more than that i thought. But,she betrayed me. I never thought she can do such thing in me,but it really happens. It hurts to lost someone that we love and we consider as our bestfriend. That gives me a good lesson,not to trust everything to a friend. Now,i only had my family i can trust with. Have a good weekend

Not really a painful episode, but I could think of one experience that helped me greatly. I was working for this company before as a nobody. I was at the bottom of the food chain and the management wouldn't know me from anybody else. Anyway, it was Christmas so I booked a week vacation for me to drive my family to California. Going back we encountered a snow storm which held us back from going home. So, instead of saving by driving down, I ended up with the most expensive vacation. I had to fly back home because I had to work that following Monday. And of course I had to fly back to California the following week to pick up the car and drive it back. Because I came back that Monday, and everybody else was on vacation, I was immediately recognized by management. After they got to know me, they realized I was 'edumacated'. So they kept giving me more responsibility until I was promoted. So it was really a blessing, now that I look back into it.

Yes, I have. I recently went through a traumatic period in my married life and it is something I will never ever forget. Even though it was such a bad experience, I always look upon it as a blessing in disguise because for one, I became a much better person out of it. I became stronger, have more faith and more in tune to the needs of others. Given a chance, I would not want anyone to experience what I experienced, but I feel that it was essential to my overall well-being, in order to face the challenges ahead of me now. I feel that it is in preparation for greater challenges in life. And I'm ready for it.

yes i have experienced such an episode in my life. I was working with a bank. I was not really happy working there. I wanted to go out of there and join somewhere else. I always tried my best but then I thought why not stay here and grow with the bank. Then a time came when we were supposed to have our annual appraisals and the boss played a big political game with me. I was denied a promotion. From that day onwards i started planning to leave my Job and do something on my own. I took up an insurance agency and also started teaching in a college as a part-time lecturer. Then i resigned from my Job and now I am enjoying my Job here.

I failed my schooling in college. People scorned me and told me I will never have a good life if I did not finish my college and have a degree. Good thing I found network marketing, and I have learned so much from their trainings. I have learned that college degrees are no longer a guarantee you will become financially successful. In the trainings, I have also acquired the habit of reading books about success, and through the books I have learned other successful successful people who were also college drop-outs like Michael Dell of Dell Computers, Bill Gates of Microsoft and Larry Ellison of Oracle. Like them, I was also forced to go into starting my own business. Like them I am now my own boss. I am not yet rich like Bill Gates, but now I enjoy uncommon freedom enjoyed only by businessmen.

Hmmm.. I don't really recall a lot of those bad times. But I know there are a lot of things that are happening in my life are blessings in disguise. Anyway, just for some advice, how did you go through all those years of being an outsider? Because I'm going through it now, and sometimes I feel really down being such a lone wolf all the time.

Many. Years ago I got into a really bad accident in hubby's truck. The vehicle was totalled. However, he was currently leasing the vehicle, and the lease was soon to be up, but he was well over on mileage plus there'd previously been some damages that he couldn't afford to repair. So getting into the accident meant he owed no money on this truck, and that was a blessing. Also more recently I had an ectopic pregnancy, and had to have surgery to remove it. In the process they had to remove both my tubes, so now I'm incapable of ever getting pregnant again. However, I already have 5 kids and did not want to get pregnant again. I'd wanted the tubal previously, but different things kept making me put it off... so getting this surgery was definitely a blessing!

I think I do I learn from my past and when I make decision now I always think of my past to help me decide what is the best and also from the other opinion. Because I believe the greatest teacher is experience. there are several event in my life that I don't regret because I made decision base on my past mistake and experience most of them are from my scouting activity and social activity. I hope people learn from their mistake because I can see and encounter people who make mistake over and over again in a same reason they never learned their lesson some of them I think is what their doing is in their blood now or they have a tough time to change it because of their status in life and problems.

Well i am still an outsider now. My dad moves around all the time so i shift school and college and i am always the new guy waiting by others to be shoved up. I don't mind at all. In fact i don't care at all. Because these people are used to doing all that.

In this regard we are like. I never bothered to do anything to pleasure others, I always did what made me feel good. Today I follow the same line and of course I'm a very happy person and I have people beside me who love me the way I'm, and not an image created.