If you consider a difficult situation and the impact it had on you, can you identify an aspect of the situation (or impact) that you can feel grateful about?

Many of your replies resonate. There are many aspects I am grateful for, which result from having experienced difficult situations, like those in my early days, when it was possible to survive physical, social and emotional life-threatening conditions. Something I am truly grateful for by now, which, in phases, was very difficult to arrive to. It probably had quite an impact on my compassion and my passion to help others as good as possible. Other difficult situations helped me to become aware and to overcome fear and insecurity to quite some extent by now and to be gratefully present where before, I had the tendency to withdraw into a kind of depressed state or fell silent and could not be of much support for others in such a state. My gratitude for the many people, my dear friends and loved ones who accompanied me in this, and who still do, is deep and will always be, no matter what. I feel to have gained some inner freedom by now to stay kind, open and vulnerable, have been able to let go of false pride and more often during the day, I experience humble moments of gratitude, for which I am deeply grateful, as a kind of hidden haughtiness had been my own hiding refuge in order not to be hurt again. What was living inside had been my mirrored difficult situations. To have had the chance to come out of these is a gift,for which I will be eternally grateful towards the ones concerned.