| Adversity certainly builds character and having lived through it and come out happily the other side, I am definitely a different person than I would have been if all had been warm and fuzzy...but better for it? No way to know.
My parents emigrated to seek a better life and I was born in their new country. At 18, I left my birth country to seek a better life for me...now my children who by the grace of God have had the warm and fuzzy life I so wished I had, will likely also leave their birth country for opportunities not available where we are.
Adversity is not necessarily a prerequisite for growth but it certainly makes it more likely. |