As you awake each day you must notice all the changes in the world and you must learn to try and understand what they mean and how they affect you.
Firstly, you must realise that if you have just drifted through life, taking everything for granted - expecting that your God will put everything right and knowing that He will - then this has been a waste, for you have a free mind and the means to captain your own life and to ride whatever rough water you have to.
When you feel you are a victim, then you can ask for guidance and help to get the strength to take whichever path is right. If you feel that life is tossing you around, going from one crisis to another, you must go into deep meditation, find your inner soul to look for the cause of, not why these things happen, but why you have not got the strength to climb the stile that is blocking your way. You will find you have a guardian Angel, if only you put out your hand and open your heart.
Dont ever think you are paying for a previous life, for God forgives everything, and every crime you do is done to yourself.
You must go forward and see all the wonderful things in life and feel you are part of them. Try touching the trees. Smell the flowers and listen to the birds. Bring to the full all of your senses and, if others see you smiling, they also will want to know how and why. And with all your senses being aroused, including your voice, you will be able to tell them. The more you extol the Divine Creator, the more love you will feel from the Angels that guide you, for unconditional love is like a flower that spreads seeds on the wind and can grow in the darkest corners, and a small light will glow for all to see. Dont look back and compare. Lift your head, smile, and go forward, knowing you are part of God and all humanity.