By Erin Pavlina

One day you will look back on your life and realize it was perfect. That everything good and bad that ever happened to you was perfect, and that there were in fact no failures. If you can have that realization today, your life will always be good.

I recently posted that on my facebook page and it got a lot of responses. Some people understood completely what I was referring to, while others seemed to think I was minimizing pain, loss, suffering, and tragedy and suggesting that nothing bad ever happens to us. A facebook page is a poor place to have a lengthy discussion so I decided to write an entire article explaining what I meant by that comment above.

We all have ups and downs in life. We all have experiences that scare us, challenge us, or even completely unravel us.... More...