Growing up and even today we always heard the quote “everything happens for a reason” and we never really understood what that meant, or if something bad happened and when we heard that quote we thought that it wasn’t true. Even today something will happen like I lost a friend, the boy I liked for a long time doesn’t like me back, I got a bad grade, or lost the position that I wanted and my parents will tell me that “everything happens for a reason.” At the time it feels like it is the end of the world and we don’t understand what we did wrong, but then a week, a month, a year later we look back and realize that our parents were right and that something better happened like I found a new guy, or ended up being too busy for the position and the person that got it did an amazing job. Everything really does happen for a reason.

We go through so many ups and downs and so many people walk in and out of our lives that is sometimes hard to keep track and each time that the cute boy that we thought we were destined to be with breaks our heart, or our best friend who was basically our other half disappoints you we are heart broken. We want to know why it happened that way and just go down the destructive path that everyone calls “what if”. I, like almost everyone else out there have gone through so many ups and downs with family hurting me and friends turning their back on me for reasons I am unaware of. I always feel that I will never be the same, but then one day I wake up and I am so thankful for the life I have because the people that hurt me yesterday are old news and I am thankful to them in some twisted way because they just made me that much stronger. Just like everyone said “everything happens for a reason” and it made me realize that they came into my life to change me and make me stronger and that was the reason.

 Then on a more positive side of the quote you meet people throughout life who are in your life today, then gone for a while, but somehow they are back in your life and it seems like it is for good. Some of my best friends who I am inseparable with today were people that I was friendly with at camp, through friends, Hebrew school, or even through family and they stick around for a while then we spread apart. We re-meet each other and now we are closer than ever and I find it so crazy how it all happened because I think back to when we first met and I never thought that we would be as close as we are.

I have started to use the quote in my everyday life because it has finally hit me that no matter how bad or good something seems it happened to us for a reason even if we just aren’t aware of it yet. Just know that one day you will wake up like I did and realize that you are okay and that what was ever bothering you yesterday is better today.