Why do bad things happen to good people?

I had an especially challenging day today. My car was having trouble, so I dropped it off at a local car repair shop this morning.

When I walked back to my apartment, I noticed that my apartment was having trouble, since maintenance workers were taking a part of my wall out to get to some water pipes.

To top this off, I stayed up around the clock last night to catch up on paperwork at my workplace, and was beyond tired. Today was my day off, so I figured that I would drop my car off to get fixed, then would catch up on some sleep in my nice quiet apartment.

But wait! It doesn't stop there. Though I dropped my car off at the car repair shop at 8:00 AM, they called my cell phone at 2:00 PM to tell me that they haven't worked on it yet! In addition, they tell me that a much bigger problem is preventing them from working on the initial problem, and that I would have to leave my car there for a few days and fork over an additional $500.

Say whaaat? I told them to forget it.

Now why can't I have a life free of hassle? Why must things go wrong? Why do bad things have to happen? I pondered this until a flash went off in my head. Then I remembered reading "The Science of Success" by James Arthur Ray.

In it, he was discussing the seven Super Laws. And one of the Super Laws that stuck out was the Law of Polarity. This law basically states that nothing can exist without its opposite! Right away, dualities started popping into my head: light-darkness, male-female, alpha-omega, sun-moon, success-failure, rich-poor, and so on.

Then it hit me! Good things and bad things are dualities of each other. In fact, they are one and the same. If you're a negative thinker, you'll see things as bad. If you're a positive thinker, you'll look for some benefits in what has happened. And if you look hard enough, you'll find them.

I immediately applied this to the "bad" events of my day and began to see them as "good" events, in that I started seeing how these events could benefit me.

So the next time you're going through a bad situation, ask yourself "How is this benefiting me?" And if you look hard enough, you'll see the benefits.

Al A. Gammate
http://www.theguaranteedcure.com/