Progress
Well I’m going to start by saying this will offend most people.
“Everything happens for a reason,” when I see that quote it drives me absolutely insane. I see this quote everywhere and here it at times from people and I just have to bite my tongue, but what I want to say is… If everything happens for a reason then life is predetermined and that means you have no real choice in the decisions you make like a programed robot or that you are simply are a physiologic process at the whim of the physical world with no free will. The person you are or your loved one is, brother, ect., is the person they are based on the decisions they have made, so in the fairy tale world of “everything happens for a reason” they are simply good because they were made that way, not because they choose to be that person. Its time people start taking a little responsibility for who they are and what they choose to do. I understand that this is not easily applied when you lose a loved one because I have no explanation for that other then hopefully the person they were lives on through you, but i see why people resort to the comfort of that saying for reason and justification. People use “Everything happens for a reason” as a comfort system because the truth is they don’t want to face the facts and take fully responsibility of their actions(choices) which entails who they have become. If we had a generation of people that understood that everything doesn’t happen for a reason, and that what they do does make a difference then mankind might start having a story of progress instead of this futile addition of zero’s.
-rex
6 months ago