In PAIN......

I kept asking myself, why bad things were being done to me by people when i had always striven to be good all my life....but then i realize just as joy and happiness are part of life, so too are sadness and HURTS..I remember a quotation i once read, it says, "How can we relish the sweetness of joy, if we will not allow ourselves to taste the bitterness of pain???"... Is it wrong to say "NO"? especially if you know that what you stand for is right??? Growing up, my parents taught me the value of real loving & helping others without expecting something in return. If you want to help, do it out of love, not because your thinking that one day that person will return the favor. I always believe that the more you give it away, the more it comes back to you, its just sad that there are people who does not see things that way..At the moment, im really torn...im hurting but decided to stop asking the unaswerable hows and whys, everything has been said, if only i could turn back time, i wish my family was spared from these..theyre living a quiet life and they have not done anything wrong. But i never regretted anything coz i know i made the right decision and was able to straighten up things along my journey. I believe everything happens for a purpose, that even the most insignificant thing that happens in my life is essential for it sharpens and enhances me for things that are yet to come... Its going to be a long journey for me, I grow up, learn wisdom and accept responsibility for my actions. The lessons i picked up will never be forgotten. Things do not always come out the way we want it..and that is reality. No matter how hard i try and no matter where i go some things are bound to happen, wether i want them or not. God works in mysterious ways!!!!I know that this is His way of teaching me the simple things in LIFE...Im not submerging my hurts...for they will only remain..I have to get over them..and live through the aches...coz IN PAIN...i grow!!!