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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
I was having a rather bad year once ... in May of that year my first wife and I separated, in June I found out she had been screwing around with my so-called best friend, in September I had to have my cat put to sleep, and in October I rolled and totalled a car I'd only owned for two weeks, breaking my neck in three places during the process. It was at that moment, when I woke up in the ditch after rolling my car, that I felt a great sense of relief and happiness. I knew that my life has just bottomed out and things could only improve from that point. And sure enough, they did. During the two months I spent in hospital in traction recovering from my neck injuries, I met an RN who became my second wife. We've been happily married for over 20 years now. Had I not discovered how miserable life could be before meeting her, I probably wouldn't appreciate her as much as I do or be as happy as I am. So ya, a little misery is good for lending perspective. Everything is relative.
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It's amazing when ones life bottoms out that we tend to appreciate life a lot more. I'm sure that after that rollover you considered yourself lucky to be alive and maybe felt you were given a new lease on life.
Myself i've been through some very dark times in my life. In fact i consider myself lucky to still be alive today. The silver lining in all this is that i can experience joy in things most people can't. I don't look for happiness in material things or money for that matter. I live each day to it's fullest and have no regrets about the past.