Remember this: the only time you DON’T grow from what happens in life is when you DON’T reflect.
Mindlessly moving from one experience to the next is what leads to repeated mistakes, cyclical thinking, and stagnation.
Which means, if reflection is in your life… regardless of the hardships, trials, and challenges… you can, at minimum, count on the fact that you’re steady growing with every happening as a result.
And if you can put trust in your growth (which you should), you can also count on the fact that you’ll eventually outgrow your current hardships, trials, and challenges (which is how it works).
…And they won’t, in fact, be an unending source of pain and suffering in your life.
Each of these situations, too, shall pass (in proportion to the quality of your reflections)—believe it.
Remember this, when you say you don’t have time for reflection in your “busy” life.
P.s. Everyone who says you should never look back is wrong.