TOEFL® essay: Most experiences in our lives that seemed difficult at the time...

[Superman]

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Most experiences in our lives that seemed difficult at the time become valuable lessons for the future.
Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

Life is always complicating and challenging. This also means that leading a good life seems not easy. People often have valuable lessons in the hard time of their lives. Therefore, I support the idea that most experiences that were difficult at the time become necessary for the future.

First of all, people tend to remember things that put them in serious or difficult situations, thus those things will properly be in their minds for a long time and become valuable lessons. In fact, there are a lot of things that happen everyday in our lives. Hence, if an event is not special or we easily handle with it, there will be nothing remained in our minds later. Also, when trying to deal with obstacles in life, people may discover many matters and they will use that experience in the next similar problems in the future. For example, a person who was too busy to cares about his family lost his father because of an accident and he realized that he left something very important behind after that fact. It was a very hard time for him, but now he spends more time with his family and he knows that they are really vital and the very happiness to him.

Furthermore, only difficult experiences help people to understand their surrounding better. Actually, we can not know a person completely in normal circumstances because people‘s true characteristics are often hidden in the profound depth of their minds. As an instance, when we are in trouble, those who are ready to help or share bad things with us are our indeed friends. In that case, we can realize that not everyone we know is our friend and we will know how to sort out those difficult situations like that.

To sum up, I strongly believe that most of the valuable lessons in our lives come from difficult experiences for all of above reasons. People often say that failure is the mother of success and it is similar to that idea.

I'm looking forward your comments and suggestions

[Chaminda_Srilanka]

yes i 100% agree with your opinion, i also have similer experience in my life. i have learnt some
thing from my past. past is a lession for future. past difficult experience like a militery
experience and from that we could gain power of sustaing(strength of suffering) it's will help to our fututre
challenges. yes that's true every obstacle is a challenge. NO pain NO gain, without dedication
we can't get success. facing many problems get life success. challange is a key of success.
as a human been we all have to realize "life is not a bed rose".life is long jerny we meet mountains
and hills too. happiness and sadness changing within life time, if we can humbly accept these two thing
similler we and spend life with satiscations.every body has a duty, do the job honestly and effincently
then you can get lead and success in you life. one person responsibility is other's right.
my suggession is
when you face difficulties be encouraged and think that you are not always in this situation
and these difficulties getting over soon. at that momenta please try to control you self.
pleasetake in to you mind " NO PAIN NO GAIN "

i want to say that i am not a native english speaker so therefore please excuse on me if
any mistake in my comments
thanks with kind regards
K.H.A.Chaminda.
from Sri Lanka