Good people do not deserve bad things, right? But the question,why does bad things have to good people.
I have seen kind people go through things they don't deserve and all I can do is just sigh.
I have learnt that goodness doesn't come with a shield. And I learnt it in a very hear way.
I'll use my parents situation in this write up.
My parents losing a child taught me something I don't think I'll ever forget.
For a long time, I struggled with the unfairness of it. When you know the kind of people your parents are, you naturally wonder why people who have lived with love, sacrifice and concern for others should have to experience such deep pain.
But grief has taught me something different.
Not every painful thing that happens to us is a punishment, and not every good thing we do is a payment toward a trouble-free life.
My parents' goodness could not prevent their loss. And their loss did not erase the goodness they had shown throughout their lives.
That distinction is important.
Sometimes, we ask, “Why did this happen to a good person?” as though suffering must mean that the person did something wrong.
But sometimes, there is no satisfying explanation.
Some things happen because we are human beings living in a world where loss, disappointment and tragedy are possible.
What we can control is what we do with the pain.
We can grieve without becoming bitter.
We can acknowledge that life was unfair without deciding that kindness is foolish.
We can continue loving people without pretending that loss doesn't hurt.
And perhaps that is the lesson my parents' experience has left with me: being good is not a guarantee that life will spare you pain. It is a choice about the kind of person you want to remain, even when life gives you reasons to become hardened.
Their grief didn't prove that goodness failed.
It reminded me that goodness was never a shield against life; it is a way of facing life.
So when life knocks you down, get up and continue being good, because the reward for being good is not a life without suffering.
Maybe the reward is becoming someone who can go through a lot without becoming the very thing that once hurt them.
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This write up is a response to the hive reach out weekly prompt:119.
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