Heck - I try my best to hold off judgement on the "bad stuff" for a year or two. I've already seen incidents that were misery when they happened, but looking back I say, "Ok, looks like You knew best there too."
Like when my mother didn't mail her portion of my FAFSA when she said she did, and I lost all my scholarships, and had to go to work - if that hadn't happened, I wouldn't have gotten my act together in time for grad school. Heck, I'd have probably brought my grades down to a miserable 3.0 and prevented myself from ever getting into grad school...