You get your heart broken; you struggle financially and are barely able to sustain yourself. You feel lonely and unwanted; your family members die unexpectedly. You lose that business or job you worked so hard for. You get diagnosed with an illness, you get injured, unable to do the activities you love.

And then you think, "Why is this happening to me? Why? I am good person, a hardworking person, an honest, kind, loving, and friendly human being. Why me?"

And then you think that you would like to eliminate from your life those painful experiences, those disgraceful moments; those mortifying circumstances. But wait a second.

In the words of Yogi Ramacharaka, “Have you ever stopped to think that if it were possible to eradicate these things, you would, of necessity, be forced to part with the experience and knowledge that has come to you from these occurrences?”

Would you really be willing to walk away from the knowledge and experience that has come to you because of such events?

Would you really be willing to go back to the state of inexperience and ignorance in which you were before the thing happened?

Would you really be willing to completely wipe out the experiences that have come to you? Really? Would you?

Imagine you could. Imagine you were able to go back and eliminate that event, that thing that caused you immense pain. If you were to go back to the old you, the you that didn’t have the knowledge gained from that particular painful experience. Then you would be extremely likely to experience the same thing again or to commit the same mistake again.

As painful as they may be, you would not be willing to change them. If you did, you would be taking away a portion of your mental structure. Your character is built up from all the experiences you’ve had.

If you were to walk away from any experience gained through pain, you would first part with one piece of yourself, and then another, and then another, until at last you would have nothing left except the mental shell of your former self.

You are what you are just by the result of your experiences. Realize this. The sooner you do, the sooner you’ll stop feeling that immense pain. The sooner you’ll stop seeing them as something ‘bad’. The sooner you’ll stop seeing yourself as unfortunate. And the sooner you’ll start living and appreciating everything that happens to you.

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