When bad things happen

I was having a hard time with the answer to this and I enlisted the help of Anni as well as meditation.  Now when I meditated on this the answer came clear as a bell, balance.  And it was like ... der.   To further that explanation, I don't want to fathom a place that is bad all day every day 24/7, and I think that if things were perfect all day every day 24/7 that people would get lazy or even bored.  Bad things happen to keep us on our toes and I know this isn't a good enough answer but it is one answer.  The old saying of , "Someone always has it worse than I.", even the person on the bottom rung of that sucky ladder can honestly say, it can only go up from here.