When something difficult or tragic happens to you, Chas V’shalom, do you react with only pain and worry and/or anger or depression, etc.? This can mean that the person is total Olam HaZeh’nik, Chas V’shalom, and a large chunk of his pain can be traced to: מַה יֹאמְרוּ הַבְרִ יות “What will people say??” which is silly: כָ בוד הַ מְ דוּמֶ ה imagined Kavod. Or, he forgot that his nature was always subtly enjoying being a nebach. So there’s loads of baloney in his difficulties.
Or you can be totally Olam HaBah’dik, like Rabbi Miller Zatzal, who insisted that all evil is really total goodness, since: כָל מַאי דְעָבֵיד רַחְמָנָא לְטַב עָבֵיד whatever Hashem does, is surely best; besides saving him from much worse pain, like Gehinom. A שִ בְ רון לֵ ב broken heart is so precious, it gives a person the best Zechusim of his life, and a front row seat in Olam HaBah. The Alter of Novardok Zatzal said that the only way to truly enjoy Olam HaZeh is when you’re always connecting your plight to your Olam HaBah situation.
Or else a person is in a dead-end mode, Chas V’shalom, and he suffers a million times more, Chas V’shalom. P.S. Yissurim can be very helpful in making a person more serious, and causing loads of Teshuva.
