As far as I can see and know from experience, it is true that people learn most from difficulties.

These difficulties are also known as trouble, problem, hard time, pain, disappointment, consequence, mistake and many other names.

I recently saw a movie from a few years back, In Good Company starring Dennis Quaid as Dan Foreman, Topher Grace as Cater Duryea and Scarlette Johansson as Foreman’s daughter in college, Alex.

Grace’s character, Carter, said to Quaid’s Dan Foreman as he was leaving an offer, “I learned a lot from you. Nobody ever gave me a hard time before.”

“You are going to be alright. You are a good man.”

They were both lonely, Carter being just divorced and Alex who just transferred to a new university in a big city, New York. Carter was on the rebound. Alex wanted company. They were both very vulnerable character. Dan, despite his violent approach at the shocking news did what he had to do. Protect his daughter. And at the same time it woke up and help the young couple to think about their relationship. Carter realized that what he wants might not be what Alex wanted from the relationship and without that, the relationship is doomed from the beginning, and he knew it, it was just what happened to him and his ex-wife not so long ago.

Alex realized that she was getting into something more committed and deep that she ever thought. She probably just wanted intimacy and company. What many girls want and not the wife, children and family and marriage that Carter was looking for. Furthermore, she found out that her dad took a second mortgage to pay for her education.

That news made both Carter and Alex reflect on the issue.

I want to be wiser while dealing with people.