“Everything happens for a reason”
and
“What goes around comes around”
are both calcified, mummified, dusty and dead versions of a more profound living-and-infinite truth:
Existence is an ever-unfolding, hyper-networked, fractal thread of threads of cause-and-effect events
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Sometimes when I look back on my life I’m like, huh, I guess that terrible thing that happened is now a part of my motivation to do something meaningful. So in that very narrow sense, “terrible thing happened for a reason”. But the important thing here is agency. I get to choose
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Like, that doesn’t mean I burst into a cancer ward tonight and go “Wonderful news, everybody! Everything happens for a reason!”
And yet many of us do micro-versions of this to all the time
I’m really starting to think that it’s because people are bad at socialising
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"I feel it's my job to say something uplifting but have the social delicacy of a ravenous seagull," is a common affliction, yes.
Doesn't help that people are raised from early childhood to speak platitudes when instinct tells you not to speak at all.
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