I truly believe that many of the experiences and even unpleasant ones at that have made me who I am for better or worse. I try to let them make me better and not bitter. I have found that adversity and struggles are when I grow best. I do not mean to imply that all bad things are good for you just that most of what I have experienced has helped to shape me.How do you feel?
2006-08-03 05:33:17 · 9 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
is true -many things i now believe can from bad experiences-wouldnt give them up though am happy with what i have become-love and hugs old hippie here
2006-08-03 05:38:30 · answer #1 · answered by bergice 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It seems like we have some level of choice between Bitter and Better. I don't understand it that well, but I know that adversity does enable you to grow if Bitterness does not set in.
2006-08-03 13:08:32 · answer #2 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not the experience itself that shapes us, but the choices we make through the experience. We can choose to succumb to the depths bitterness or we can choose to fight past the anger, fear, depression, etc. that has been brought our way through a crisis, a disease or a wound of the heart. We have the ability to not allow our circumstances to make us who we are, no matter how painful or devastating the situation was.
2006-08-03 12:43:49 · answer #3 · answered by steves_wifey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you absolutely. I've had a past of very unhappy circumstances, alot of which were of my own making because of poor choices. I'm bitter about nothing, because I'm wise enough to know that, because of what I did, I reaped the consequences of my actions.
Especially since becoming a born again Christian, I understand that what I do, my actions and choices, affect what happens in my life. I have no control over what others do...I do have control over how I deal with it. I'm old enough to know it's a waste of your life to stay embittered over something someone did or said to you.
God works all things for good, to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.
2006-08-03 12:40:34 · answer #4 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible states that God only disciplines the ones of faith... but gives us all judgment. so i believe that some it will make them bitter. as God said he hardens the hearts of some (non believers) and those that believe see it as God saying something to us. that is my belief.
2006-08-03 12:44:59 · answer #5 · answered by God's Servant 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it does both. you are bitter at first, but after awhile you discover how the situation taught you a lesson or made you a better person.
2006-08-03 12:44:10 · answer #6 · answered by Niecy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The philosophy of the School of Hard Knocks:
What doesn't kill ya makes you stronger.
2006-08-03 12:41:16 · answer #7 · answered by Red neck 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a different person than I was at twenty, and I wouldn't change it. I'm quite a bit more cynical, but also a lot happier.
2006-08-03 12:41:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not easy up on the "Potters Wheel". Everything that has happened to me ( good and bad ) has brought me closer to God.
2006-08-03 12:40:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋