Why do bad things happen? Why can’t we control things enough to stop the bad things? The pain, regret, guilt, self-condemnation of past mistakes, why didn’t we do better? Why did the bad things happen? I heard a line once, which was “everyone is doing the best they can, with the information they had at the time.” True. But the inexplainable bad things that happen to us, not what we decide, what about them? Well the fact is, it’s out of our control. We don’t control the bad things that happen to us, we can only control how we respond.
Misery is unavoidable, bad things will happen, it is not in our control. Thank God bad things do happen or we wouldn’t be able to feel what good things feel like. What is sunshine without the rain? Miserable things happening to us are not in our control, but staying miserable is. A man lost his child and refused to stay miserable. “I refuse to have her death, the reason be something bad, it must be for something good.” Misery sucks. If it’s not good, then it’s good cause to cause good.
Good cause is a legal term denoting adequate or substantial grounds or reason to take a certain action, or to fail to take an action prescribed by law. So, misery is good cause to cause good in the world. Help another, be kind, smile, laugh, do some good. The worse things get, the more “good cause” you have to cause good. The world is cold, go be warm to someone.