This is exactly the reason I get so irked when people come up with their "everything happens for a reason" pseudo-wisdom after something unpleasant happens to them. There is no ulterior, grand plan behind why things happen, it is just your mind trying to make sense in hindsight out of an event that you perceived as negative – an effort to rationalize the random in order to gain some sense of control over the uncontrollable and unforeseeable.
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Awesomely put.
Well, technically everything does happen for a reason...
It's just the reason is a cosmic dice throw of circumstances past and present combined with your current situation and the decisions made by you and everyone around you ;)
@pbock True, but I doubt that is what people who constantly use that set phrase have in mind whenever they utter it...
Yeah...
but its what we'll have in mind when we get so annoyed that we just need to shoot them down by seemingly agreeing with them, then explaining why their version is not what WE think 😈