no reason.

“Everything happens for a reason” is one of the most inequitable, ruthless phrases and it continues to be casually thrown around as one of those respected quotes used to justify any calamity one might be enduring. But can you really believe that you deserve what’s thrown at you? You think that every situation can and must teach you a lesson? You’re fine with the requirement to see the positive in all that occurs? K.

Don’t worry! These bad things are here to teach you! They’ll educate you! You’ll learn that This Will Help You Grow As A Person and This Will Show You Who Is Really There For You and This Will Bring You Closer To God and This Will Cause You To Never Take Life For Granted.

These lessons provide experience. I’ll give ‘em that. However, they’re also seemingly irrelevant to the situation at hand during the moment you’re going through it. And when the situation is significant enough, you’re going through it forever. Everything happens for a reason? I’ll always remember first hearing that phrase. I was 12; it was Avril Lavigne (lol) who said it in some interview. I didn’t agree with it as a whimsical 12-year-old; I could hardly concur with it now.  

It is so cruel to say that bad things happen for a reason. You can’t possibly believe that. Life is random.



Prayers go out to the Trebesch and Peterson families.