On any given day, we make all sorts of decisions, some good, and some not so good. For all those, that want to make more good decisions so as to therefore be a better person, and thus, in principle, be good for something and therefore good for others, this is going to necessitate a whole lot of practice. In other words, as much as we might want to believe that we are born good, and that everything that we deal with subsequently is always going to be good, that isn’t going to be the reality of the situation; but rather, we are going to have to diligently practice being good, as preparation for whatever so comes, expected or unexpected, in order to maintain that goodness for ourselves and for those we interact with.
To a very large extent, we should welcome problems, difficulties, and setbacks; because when everything is going our way, we might not really be learning all that much, and for a certainty, we probably aren’t doing all that we could be doing in order to make this world a better place for our being a part of it. Therefore, a more productive way of looking at inconvenient problems and such, is one in which this creates for us, our opportunity to make something good out of it; and to the degree that we succeed, so much to the better; whereas, to the degree that we fail, this should therefore be a wake-up call for us to keep on trying to be good and to do right, so that in the future, we will do better.
As they say, a “baptism by fire” is a surefire way to either grow or to regress. Nevertheless, as much as we might desire to avoid such, recognize that if our own house was on fire, we would strongly prefer that the fire fighters coming to save our home, would be those that have had good experience and previous success in dealing with such, as opposed to those which may well be schooled, but have, to date, been untested. That is why we need to not only step up, where it is appropriate to step up; but occasionally we need to push ourselves outside of our normal boundaries in order to grow further, because the more experience that we get of which we end up being successful with, the more useful and complete we are, as good human beings.
There wouldn’t be any drama in life, if everybody was a goody two-shoes, but we need not worry about that, because there is always plenty of drama, if not in our immediate vicinity, then for a certainty, outside of it. While some people, might find such drama to be purposeless, or some might find such unbecoming, the fact of the matter is, most people are at a minimum intrigued by it, if not outright involved in it, willingly or not. It is that drama, that we need to engage ourselves in, not so to entrap ourselves by it, but rather to prove our mettle in a field in which such proving will provide a real material benefit for others, which is the real-time type of practice, that defines us as good, or as good for nothing.