What I've come to realize

I feel as though people have to experience horrible and upsetting situations in life in order to come to a realization about something. And those realizations evoke change. And when the change occurs, it's like an awakening almost. It's as if you've been enlightened to an extent. And from that point I feel as though things have the potential to get better, because you've realized your wrongs and the feelings you've experienced make you not wanna do what you did initially, because you never wanna feel that way ever again.