rateful.At one point of my life I was taking things too personally, and the first step was try and fight it all - battling fire with fire. That was the only thing I knew.It became exhausting after awhile - while not many things were changing around me.The only path I saw was to become dispassionate: events, people and things don't actually exist to get me. They just exist - and sometimes our paths cross.The way they react to me is their path; the way I react to them is mine.However, I came to believe that EVERYTHING that happens actually happens for a reason: I might not see that reason, that PURPOSE immediately but it's there.So, I started being grateful for the chance to experience things (good, bad and ugly) and for the chance to come out of the experience in one piece, and even if I had a price to pay (emotional, mental, financial), it was still a small price to pay for a life lesson.In another inexplicable turn of events, those puzzling life lessons later returned and if I paid enough attention to RECOGNIZE them, I could avoid a bigger disaster, all thanks to a previous experience.I NEVER KNOW just what will come my way and whether it's going to be a benevolent of a malevolent for me.As one ancient prayer states, Thank you for arriving; if you came to help me, I appreciate the blessing; if you came as a lesson, please teach me.