This is a hard truth, not easy to accept. But in life it is so important to remember: you never know how everything will turn out.
“This is perhaps a difficult truth, it is not easy to accept. But I am sure that any thinking person will agree with the legitimacy of the phrase. This is not only “everything that is done is for the better”, it is also “you never know how everything will turn out” — we owe the most bitter losses at least to the fact that we learned the price of gains. That they taught us not to judge others, to be more tolerant, pointed out to us what we were wrong about. Since I fell in love with this maxim, at every severe test I ask not “why am I doing this?” (since the mercy of the Lord, like disgrace, is equally distributed among people), but “what should this teach me?”. No one is able to punish us or make us happy, except ourselves. If we proceed from the fact that any news is a challenge (task, adventure, rebus, test), life changes dramatically. It no longer has a place for chronic unhappiness, but there is a place for research.
* Boris Grebenshchikov, rock musician and poet, leader of the Aquarium group; a line from the song «Fairy», the album «Songs of the Fisherman» (2003).