Life changing experiences

We all have gone through life changing experiences perhaps not all positive but surely all eye opening, from being up rooted from ones land to live and work in an unknown environment, to physical and emotional disabilities and its obvious consequences. These life experiences are parts and parcels of a dual combination of 'suffering' and 'happiness' that define life and fuel our growth. As I recently read, it is believed that suffering brings us empathy, while happiness gives us hope and energy.