Often times when life hits us like a ton of bricks, at least just saying “why me?” And after the event has passed, we want again come back to the age old truth of “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”
It’s a fact that life negative experiences make us more resilient. While constant trauma does cause psychological problems, those who had no trauma at all also have problems. It’s the somewhere in the middle that have some traumatic events, that turned out better.
One explanation may be that lost that have gone through negative. Life experiences are better equipped to cope with them.i’m not saying that those who go through trauma are always better for it, but rather that many can eventually come through it relatively unscathed.
From Pity to Praise 