In therapy we find that things that people think of catastrophes are often the best thing that ever happened to them. For the Stoics one of the main things would be that pain or death or deprivation or loss is actually can make a stronger if we learn from it my Seneca says if these things that you guys consider good fortune if that was all you had it would probably destroy you. It may be the setbacks and obstacles of the things that actually generate genuine personal growth like going to the gym.