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This is quite an easy question to ask, but not an easy one to answer. It is a question that points out to the complexities of life which we will only come to understand after we have been pained, wounded and scarred.

Bad things happen to good people because they are the chosen ones. It’s the good people who have the ability and capability to withstand the test of time and become better persons. That’s how life sees them.

I’m not saying that bad people will never become good and better. There’s always the possibility, yes. But Life is also a skilled gambler which mostly places its bet on the good cards because it sees a bigger chance of winning on those. In other words, when Life chooses you, it sees you a winner in the making, and would then start training you to become better, or to become the best you could be. How?

First, Life will make you into a knife constantly sharpened by the roughness of stone. It surely hurts. It would even make you bleed. But later on, it is that same roughness that would definitely make you tough. And when times get rough, the tough gets going.

Second, Life will make you into a boat, and will teach you how to go against the tide and at the same time dance with the harshness of the wind. You will stumble and fall, but Life would see to it that you’d continue to sail in order for you to reach your own shore.

Third, Life will turn you into a nail constantly hammered by the carpenter’s hand. You’d feel your bones shatter, but in the end you will see that it will be you who will connect and shape everything.

Behold, for Life is about to turn you into a diamond, that no matter how hard others will hit you, you will never break.

You are good but bad things happen to you? Cheer up, you lucky one! Life is making you strong; Life is making you precious…because Life loves you.