Benefits Of Problems

"No money to eat, not understanding the class, couldn't answer the exams, doubting what you want to be in the future."

These are the few  PROBLEMS that are probably running in someone's mind.

You may think I'm crazy for saying these things has it's benefits.

I thought my Chemistry lecturer was crazy when he first proposed this statement in front of our class.

It was because when he said this, I encountered a lot of problems, which had probably led me to mild depression, and caused me to think about weird things.

It was his last class for this semester, hence his last class with our class since it was the final semester before we ended our foundation and continue our degrees.
He was famous for giving extra work to his students, and high blood pressure whenever it's his class.
I never thought that he would did what he had did.

He asked us to wrote our problems on a piece of paper. Then folded them into an airplane.
He counted to three, and we all throw our airplanes in the lecture hall. Some may not admit, but it's obvious that everybody felt it.

HAPPY. FREE. THE FEELING OF UNITY IN OUR CLASS.

Smiles were painted on our faces, feeling like a child again, happy to participate in the activity.

He said "Those were your problems, and you threw them away. Some of the airplanes (problems) landed on the table, some is already near at the exit waiting for someone, maybe a friend to help them out, while some makes a u-turn in the middle of the journey. While you were writing them, you felt stressed out, even angry maybe thinking about 1001 problems which are occurring in your life right now. When you threw them away, you felt happy, maybe sad because it came back. But that was it, what you felt were emotions. Without problems there shall be no emotions, you wouldn't felt happy, because there is nothing to feel happy about, no satisfaction of overcoming an obstacle, without it, you won't ever feel angry, sad, annoyed because there are nothing to feel angry about. You will simply lose emotions. And without emotions you'll simply lose the humanity that made us human. You shall lose the excitement of life by just simply living. You wouldn't feel. You wouldn't hurt. You wouldn't love."

I was awestruck by what he said. By how true it was to me.

Come to think of it everything happens for a reason.It's the law of the universe. The law of God.
So, if you're having a bad day or encountering too much problems at the moment, it's only to make you stronger, to make you a better person, to make you a better you. :)