Experiences from one’s very early years can sometimes have the most profound effects in later life.
You are learning to how to form reality from your own beliefs, while having the freedom to choose those beliefs, to chose your mental state, in a way that animals for example do not.
In larger picture there are no errors for each action pleasant or not; that larger picture the conscious mind may not be able to perceive it.
Our vitality wants to express itself. The whole world of nature is irrepressible expressible area of expansion.
The most unfortunate escapades, our most sorrowful ventures are not dead ended but serve as doorways into a deeper comprehension and more meaningful relationship with the universe of which we are such a vital part.
Metaphysics Consciousness Beliefs 