Being thankful for the trials in my life

So I was having an interesting conversation after with a guy that I had only met twice previously.

We both have/had psychology in our backgrounds and some pretty strong mutual interests as well. After about 20 minutes of chatting, I said to him something like:

"You know, Riley, I can see now that there are things that I've learned in life that I would have learned in no other way if I hadn't of gone through what I did."

To be fair, I told him that there's no way I'd sign up for a second round of what I've been though, (😅) but I can really see the positives and attributes that I have gained. Along with, amazingly enough, the gratitude for all those trials.