I’ll answer my own question.
Things don’t always work out. People die, people miss opportunities that never come back again, people lose their money, people get horrible illnesses that leave them never the same.
Sure, sometimes things work out or are not as bad as they seem. A situation might have silver lining or put you on a new and better path, but when I know something is bad it usually doesn’t make me feel better to hear those expressions, it makes me feel like the person saying it doesn’t understand the gravity of what’s happening.
Even things with silver linings or maybe I grew a lot from a bad experience; usually, I’d still rather the bad thing had never happened.
@ragingloli Is that what people say? The Holocaust worked out because the Jews got Israel? Do any Jewish people say that? I know Jewish people who would agree we got Israel because of sympathies around the world following the Holocaust, but mostly I think a lot of countries were happy to get rid of their Jews, and not have to take in Jewish refugees. I remember the President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, used to say something like, if the Jews got Israel because of the Holocaust (he was a Holocaust denier) then they should have been given part of Germany. People thought he was horrible, but I did see some logic in what he was saying.