Why Me?

Quentin and Orri sat quietly for a few moments and thought. “So,” said Orri, “You’re saying that sometimes things happen that we don’t like, things we are not happy about, but this paves the way for other good things to happen?” “Interesting thought, isn’t it?” asked Quentin. “We only look at a very small part of everything that is happening, one event at a time, as it’s happening to us. But everything is connected-like that very long chain you made of paper links. We look at one link at a time. We don’t ever see the whole thing. We don’t know what colour or size the next link is going to be, or why we need the one that seems so terrible, the one we don’t like. Each link is important though, because it helps us to get to the next. Trust there is a good reason for everything that happens, we just don’t always know what it is”