Go Let It Out

Here's a genuine thought. The whole "everything happens for a reason" logic is absolutely ridiculous.
And I'll tell you why. If it's meant to make people feel hopeful and look on the brighter side of things- IT DOESN'T!

Seriously, when we're up against a brick wall at work or our private life or anywhere else for that matter, do we honestly get the feeling of "Hmmm, yes, I'm glad I lost a multi-million dollar deal. It MUST mean that while I would have been financially better off and given my entire family security and moved up in this world, I most probably would have suffered for it"? NO- WE DON'T! If a woman is left standing at the altar, or a man finds out his wife is cheating on him with his brother or best friend or the gardner, if a couple lose a child to cancer or heart disease or have a miscarriage, if an old man loses his wife, if a kid doesn't get a bike for christmas- will they stop and look on the brighter things in life? I don't think so. I just don't believe anyone's that friggin positive and optimistic. We all hurt when we don't get what we want, and we hurt even more when we lose what we want and already had. And it friggin kills when you settle for the minimum in everything and you're humble in your expectations but hard working in pursuit AND THEN EVEN THE MINIMUM SLIPS OUT OF YOUR HANDS. Except maybe the kid with the bike. The reason in his case is money- cheap parents or hard up parents.

Everything happens for a reason. Sure it does, and the reason is for you to suffer and burn and crash. And please, all the "artist" who draw creation from their experience, well good for them, we're not all artists. We're laymen. Laymen trying to make ends meet, and the ends are similar in polarity and all the force in the world won't make them meet.

So, dear whoever came up with the "everything happens for a reason" crap, spare us the BS. And spare us your sickening dose of optimism. And while you're at it, call your friend who came up with "what doesn't kill you make you stronger" and tell him there are some of us out there who are ready to maim, hurt, dismember, neuter, and torch him, but not fatally- purely for the scientific purposes of testing the accuracy of his statement. I'd like to see how STRONGER he'd be if he becomes a blind, incapacitated quadrapligic.

BUT! We absolutely MUST and SHOULD stay positive and hope for the best. Hope for the best and plan for the worse. Yes. Because that makes sense of course. Be bi-polar in dealing with day to day events.

I shouldn't write when I'm on too much caffeine on a bad day.