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Sometimes things do not quite go as they were planned.

We all can think of numerous situations where an event suddenly took an undesirable turn.

One such experience that I often remind myself of, because it turned out well and thus shows that there is always hope no matter how bad a situation might look at some point in time, is a cycling trip I made made last year.

Things started off pretty bad.

At the end of the first day my bike broke down in the middle of a dark forest.

The sun was already about to set and there was nobody in sight who could possibly help me.

Finally I had to push my bike until I came across some small village.

Although it was already late and the streets were deserted, after half-an-hour I heard somebody calling for me.

The person who had called was a middle-aged man, who seeing that I was in trouble, invited me over to his place in order to take a look at my bike.

We spent the evening together, he repaired my bike and when I left his home I had made myself a new friend.

The next day, after no more than 2 hours of cycling I encountered once again a problem.

All of a sudden, the front-wheel blocked and wouldn't spin anymore, so I was stuck next to noisy and highly-frequented road with my bike and the huge amount of luggage that I was carrying with me.

But just as the day before, somebody came to my rescue.

Only a couple of minutes after my bike broke down, an old woman stopped her car next to me and asked me whether I needed a lift.

Thanks to her help, I could get my bike repaired in a nearby cycling- store.

To put it into a nutshell, I think that encountering unpredictable twists and turns is part of life and we can not avoid them.

Moreover, I believe that this kind of experience is really valuable because it shows, that more often than not there is a solution to our problems.