We actually become stronger through suffering (unfortunately…or fortunately, depending on how you look at it.) Think how things would be if we never had to struggle with anything, never had to work for anything, and then suddenly got hit with a big hardship or tragedy. It is our past life experiences that make us who we are, that strengthen us to deal with much harder things in life further down the road.
I don’t know what you believe, but have you never had a situation that seemed horrible at the time, but then ended up working out much better than you would ever have imagined. For us believers, we believe that God, who is omnipotent can see a much larger scope of things than we ever could, so that what may seem horrible to us was really for our benefit. Sometimes we find out later how things actually worked out better, but sometimes we don’t.
It can make it very frustrating to see justice in this world.
Here’s a simplistic example: Ever been stuck in traffic, and end up getting where you were going late? Frustrating, isn’t it? But did you ever find out later that if you had been further along in traffic, you would have been involved in a perhaps fatal accident?
Look how many stories there are of people who should have been at work at the World Trade Center on September 11th. At the last minute something came up that delayed them or detained them. Don’t you think many of them were frustrated, annoyed, etc. at the time when that happened? Imagine how they felt later when they found out they may very well have died that day if their day had gone as planned.
The point is, many times we have no idea what is going on in the bigger picture, when in all actuality it is working out for the best. Whether you believe this is God’s plan for you or not, many of us know that things happen for a reason. And as for good things happening to “bad people”, yes, that is frustrating, but it often balances out, although, again, we can’t always see the end result. That’s part of sin being brought into the world…that not everything is fair and right. Hope my long answer helped, whether or not you believe in a higher power.