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There are parts of my past that I wish I could forget, but know that I shouldn't. For me, it was the bad times that made me who I am. Actually, it might be like that for everyone.
In moments of joy, we all behave the same; we smile, we laugh, we loose all thoughts unrelated to our momentary elation. While the feeling is potent, it doesn't grow us as people. Nor does it stunt us. We are the same people in that moment that we've been.
In our moments of utmost despair, there are huge variances from person to person, soul to soul. One person may hide, while one wants to be seen. One might pretend nothing happened, while another takes it head on. They guy next door may want to hurt someone so they feel it too, and the old lady upstairs might kill the source of her pain with kindness. I may want to keep it all inside, while you nothing more than to talk it out. The possibilities for coping with pain are endless. One thing will always remain the same, though. While everyone experiences things they wish never happened, you can't grow until you've hurt.
In your most private and desperate suffering, you are alone. No one has felt this exact pain. No one can feel what another soul feels, no matter how similar the situation is on the outside. The inner struggle is always a solitary one. It's common sense that if you are alone in a problem, you have no one else to depend on to fix it. This means that you have to pull thoughts, connections, and feelings out of your self, mind, and spirit that weren't there before. You are building yourself up from the inside out. The more you struggle internally, the stronger, the more complex, the more prepared you become.
This is why I find myself thinking that as much as I hate my past and what I've had to see and suffer through, it was completely necessary. If everything had gone my way my whole life, I'd be an empty shell.

The point I'm trying to make is that you should be grateful on some level for the problems life throws at you, no matter how terrible they are. You'll most likely stronger person for it.

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