Following Hashem's agenda

Unfortunately many children view school as something that they have to tolerate, and find a way to beat the system.  Instead of trying to grow and learn in school they are busy trying to find ways of getting by.

Even more unfortunately many adults look at life this way.  Instead of looking for ways to grow and become a better person they are looking for ways to beat the system.

Everything that happens in our lives is from Hashem to help us reach perfection and shlaimus.  We have to follow Hashem's agenda for us and not our own.  Much of the suffering in our lives comes from our refusal to see life in Hashem's terms instead of our own.

from a Shiur on Aish.com by Rabbi Yitzchak Berkowitz