Expectation of and hence happiness or upsetness with reality

All issues boil down to expectation of and hence happiness or upsetness with reality, for example, I just met a Jew who unfortunately got caught smuggling drugs into Thailand, where he was sentenced to death, then a hundred years and after eighteen years released, but know this, initially he was very angry with God that he got caught but now he is happy, you see, being a drug addict, he realizes that having spent those years forcibly clean, he now understands, that had he not been sentenced, he would be dead!