I thought it was a sign of misfortune. That nightmare was actually preparation for happiness.

When bad things keep happening, even the future starts to look dark.

When bad things keep happening, you get the feeling that something bad will happen again.One thing goes wrong.

Then, for some reason, the second thing goes wrong too.
When the second thing continues,
you start to feel like a third thing is coming next.


"Things haven't been going my way lately."Once you start thinking that, even the events right in front of you start to look a little dark.

I, too,

had a period like that.It was just when things weren't going well at work one after another.

It wasn't that I had made a huge mistake.
But small stumbles piled up, and before I knew it, I felt tired in my heart.
My body was moving.

I was still going to work.
I was talking to people normally.
Even so,

deep inside my heart, I was constantly out of breath.

Every morning, I woke up sweating.

Around that time, I often had scary dreams.

One day, it was a dream about being caught in a big fire. The surrounding buildings were being swallowed by flames one after another.
While sirens were blaring,
I was just
running away with all my might. On another day, I had a

dream about being chased by a snake. The snake moved faster than I imagined, and even though I ran desperately, it kept closing the distance. The moment I

was almost bitten, I suddenly woke up. I also had a dream about falling off a deep, deep cliff.

When I woke up, even though I should have been sleeping, my breathing was a bit ragged.


Even though I was in my futon, it felt like I had really just finished running away. And,
I was sweating.

"Not again..." Mornings like that continued.



Even though I had been sleeping, I didn't feel rested at all. I was already tired from the morning.


Honestly, I thought back then, "Isn't this a sign that something bad is going to happen?" "Isn't this a sign that my heart is reaching its limit?"



Fire. Snake.
Cliff.

They all seemed like nothing but bad omens.

The day the meaning of my nightmares changed

However, one dayI happened to look up the meaning of the dream.

Then,I learned something unexpected.

Dreams of fires and dreams of snakes,
actually seem to have positive meanings.

Of course,
I don't think the meanings of dreams are always correct.
I don't intend to stake my whole life on dream interpretation.

Even so, for me at that time,
those wordssank into my heart in a strange way.

"Oh, maybe it's not a sign of misfortune."

The moment I thought that, I felt a little less tense.

Until then, every time I had a bad dream,
"Maybe something bad is going to happen again."
I used to think that.

But,when I learned they had good meanings, I was able to think the opposite.

"Could it be that this is a sign that something good is about to happen?"

Thinking that made me feel a little excited.

My perspective had changed.
That was all.

What I had thought were signs of misfortune,
I could now see as potential signs of happiness.

Just by that,the scenery I saw changed a little.

A series of misfortunes was preparation for happiness.

From then on,
things I wanted to do started going well. It wasn't that my life changed dramatically overnight. It wasn't that all my worries disappeared. But,


the tide began to turn little by little.

Instead of thinking, "Maybe something bad will happen again," I started thinking, "Maybe something good will happen next."

.
This difference was truly significant.Even in the same daily routine, just by changing the direction of your heart,

the scenery you see changes.

That nightmare back then. The mornings I woke up sweating. The time I spent running away from anxiety. The siren that was ringing in my heart.
It wasn't necessarily all bad.


Perhaps my heart was trying to tell me something.

.

In order to receive the next happiness

, perhaps it was preparing little by little. The days I thought were a series of misfortunes were preparation for happiness.

If you are currently in a difficult period
. If you feel like


only unpleasant things keep happening.

Is that really a sign of misfortune?Perhaps now is
the time before happiness catches up with you. The anxiety you see now

can turn into future happiness. The dream that scared you


can someday turn into a signal of hope. When I was able to think that way,

my days gradually became brighter.