(Something is wrong with Blogger. This blog post appeared on 12 May 2011, not 15 May 2011.)
In life, good and bad things happen. We just have to hope that more good things than bad things happen. If good things happen, we have to know it when we see it and take advantage of them. If bad things happen, we must know to take remedial action and not sink deeper. Easy to say and hard to do? Probably.