Everything happens for a reason...
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:laugh:I do agree that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger! This has been my year for that!
My husband's response to that mantra is- "but what if it doesn't kill you, but leaves you in a coma, or a quadriplegic? You definitely are not stronger!"
He can be :laugh: such a killjoy sometimes!0 -
ye i think so.. some things happen for a reason..
i went to a works christmas party with a female friend when i was 18, i had been partying for 2 weeks and had no money left but it was her works christmas party and she insisted i go since she won the lottery numbers at work that day she would pay.
i never got dressed up, i was wearing loose black office clothing, there was 2 branches of the company at the party. A lot of nice guys , blonde blue eyes body builders, which was my thing back then. I got lots of attention but i was in a relationship kind of with an army lad who had been home on leave 2 weeks but was off with his mates i'd not seen him.
Then a gorgeous bum walked passed me at eye level , he turned around looked straight into my eyes smiled and said.. im going to marry you. i laughed but we started talking and a whole weekend passed, you could'nt seperate us, he proposed 6 weeks later and 3 days after that i found i was pregnant, we had 4 babies within 5 years. ( i was never supposed to be able to conceive i have pcos). We were together 20 year last christmas..
Neither of us should have been at that party, my friend worked at one branch and his brother worked at another, we both had no money and were forced to go to the party , we had both just moved back into the area a couple of months before. Later we found we had at different times in our youth we had always had the chance to meet but never did.
1. his brother and him were in the same school year as my brother when i was 5-10 yrs right next to my school.
2. he told me how he moved away from the area but came back one weekend on a night out and ended up fighting with a lad, i was about 15 then, i seen the fight but a pillar in the building was hiding the guy that was fighting the lad i was out with. It was him lol
3. his brother had a fight with a guy who was seeing his ex wife, that guy was the best mate of my boyfriend at 16.
4. i moved about 200 miles away when i was 16 went to college for 2 yrs. when i came back all the lads i had known as mates growing up were asking me out and i had said nooooooo... he had moved to spain to live for the summer at least and came home at christmas and met me.
he had been good friends and hanging around with all the same people i knew all our lives, but on the other side of town mostly but we never met lol0 -
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Every cause is followed by an effect. So yeah I believe everything happens for a reason. And that reason is who you are.0
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Not at all. It is an easily held belief to make sense of the harder moments in life, but things truly are random, from the sperm that takes purchase to the shooting on the school bus.0
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They claim everything happens for a reason. Do you believe that??? Can you share any stories that made you realize that was the reason why things happened the way they did?
Yes, I do. I used to be really into this idea, too. But now I realize that the reason that some things happen isn't always a good reason. So I just stick to positive stuff when I say "everything happens for a reason".0 -
I think only some things happen for a reason…. spilling your protein drink all over yourself doesn't happen for a reason unless there's someone there to lick it off.
Sure there's a reason...you dropped the drink!0 -
They claim everything happens for a reason. Do you believe that??? Can you share any stories that made you realize that was the reason why things happened the way they did?
I think it's strictly literally true...and a completely inane statement.
There is a reason everything happens. But that doesn't mean there was a plan.0 -
You know, I don't even agree with this.
Sure there's a reason...you dropped the drink!I think only some things happen for a reason…. spilling your protein drink all over yourself doesn't happen for a reason unless there's someone there to lick it off.
Dropping the drink didn't cause the spill, the drink could have sprayed outward from you, it merely made the spill possible. Perhaps it even made it probable, but it didn't make it certain.0 -
Every cause is followed by an effect. So yeah I believe everything happens for a reason. And that reason is who you are.
Yay Science!
Cause & Effect0 -
You know, I don't even agree with this.
Sure there's a reason...you dropped the drink!I think only some things happen for a reason…. spilling your protein drink all over yourself doesn't happen for a reason unless there's someone there to lick it off.
Dropping the drink didn't cause the spill, the drink could have sprayed outward from you, it merely made the spill possible. Perhaps it even made it probable, but it didn't make it certain.
Yeah, but what's the probability of that?0 -
No. Things happen because people make them happen.
^^^ this0 -
I was blessed with athletic talent and a hard work ethic and that talent got cut short, two years into my career, by having my knee blown up in a practice. At the time, there wasn't the skills there is now to repair the body. It sucked, it was everything and then it was nothing.
I came back home and within a month, met my (now ex)wife and we had two of the best kids ever.
I look back from time to time and thank the universe, because without that injury, these kids would not be, and that would make me sad.
P.S. I see friends that had a full career and my gimpy knee is still a lot better than the arthritis and aches that they deal with0 -
Just keep looking at the flowers Lizzie
Lmao TWD reference
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I believe some things happen for a reason, I also believe some things just happen because life is just difficult at times and it sucks. My story I would share would be when I was in a sort of bad relationship at the time, I got pregnant, had a miscarriage, and my boyfriend at the time broke up with me afterwards. It was one of the most difficult things I had to go through. I was a mess, but picked myself back up and eventually met my current partner, and almost a year later I got pregnant again and had my beautiful daughter. I'd rather not have gone through with the pain, but sometimes you have to in order to get to where you are now.0
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I do believe that some things happen for a reason, but it would take an essay to tell you about all the different things that proved it to me. Some people will never believe that, but some of us have had enough proof in our lives that we have no choice but to believe it. I do also believe that it is not what you go through, but how you go through it. I know that things are not going to go perfect through my life, but I just keep trying to do the best I can even through bad times.0
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No One Understands the Silence
between my Words.........;(
No One Understands the Sadness
behind my Smile......;(
No One Understands the Unsaid
Feelings of mine........;(
They Think I am fine
But Only I know
daily I am dying.........;(
I Wan to be happy again...
I want to live those moments
again...
I am Sick of Wearing Fake Smile...
I am Waiting For You make me
Smile Again.........!!!! ;(0 -
I don't agree....things happen because people make them happen. Then they say something like "everything happens for a reason" or "if it's meant to be it will be".0
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Absolutely, everything happens for a reason... That does NOT mean that it happens by design, necessarily. The reason some things happen may not be clear to us but many times they are... Why did the drunk man go to jail? well, he was driving drunk... duh... bad choice = bad consequence.... Other things happen for unknown reasons... but an underlying reason does exist. They key to success in life, is to take the circumstances of our lives as raw materials and learn from those things and then manipulate those things into positive things for our life...0
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I do agree that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger! This has been my year for that!
My husband's response to that mantra is- "but what if it doesn't kill you, but leaves you in a coma, or a quadriplegic? You definitely are not stronger!"
He can be :laugh: such a killjoy sometimes!
Actually, my husband is quadriplegic and is a lot stronger (mentally than most people on here). But whatever makes you laugh.0 -
Yes.
There were a chain of events that lead me to where I am now, and even though some were very dark.. I wouldn't change a damned thing.
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Everything happens for a reason for sure, but the outcome isn't always the one you want.
Each choice we make and each event shapes us and moves us in a direction. If we are lucky they move us in a good direction, but our choices are a big part of it.
I love my job and wouldn't be here if I didn't turn down another job that wasn't quite right at the time, I also would not have been out of work when my dad took a turn for the worse and passed away. So yes my choice did put me in a place, but it was my choice to say no.0 -
Random things happen randomly and intentional things happen intentionally. I think humans apply reasons to things as a basis to feel like we have control over our lives. Sometimes there are remarkable coincidences, sure. It's also in human nature to reflect and remember more good things than bad things and piece together the past with good ol' 20/20 hindsight. So no, everything does not happen for a reason, but we can make a reason out of everything that happens.0
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I live by this. I guess it's how it helps me get through rough times and make sense of "bad things". I believe that everything in your life happens for a reason and sometimes it takes hindsight and perspective to understand what that reason is and then hopefully you will have the ability to learn and grow stronger from it.0
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