According to Epictetus, "What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about the things" (sec. 5). The example he gives here is death. It is not necessarily a bad thing, but our judgement somehow depicts it as dreadful. I think that this is a very interesting point of view. I also think that there are many things we can see from different angles, and depending on whichever angle you are looking at it from, it can either be good, bad or somewhere in between. For example, if you drop your doughnut on the floor, you can either see it as a waste of money, or you can see it as you were just saved a couple of extra calories. It all depends on your point of view.
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