You hear it every time you get dumped by a lover, lose a job, lose anyone or anything: Everything happens
for a reason, a convenient faith-based salve to "explain" the inexplicable.
Of course, some things happen for a reason. You cheat on your girlfriend, you're gonna get dumped,
you punch out your boss, you're gonna get fired. Simple cause and effect.
But the people who believe in and blab out EHFAR don't put much faith in cause and effect or rational thought or seeking the truth or science or chaos or randomness or luck.
Everything happens for a reason because everything is controlled by the will of God.
Give it up to Big G, keep the faith and eventually all the shit that happens will turn to shinola.
Never mind earthquakes, hurricanes, genocides, droughts and terminal diseases.
God did it. We're off the hook. We've got no control, so we're out of control.
Put it in a box and tie it with a pretty pink ribbon. Nothing's really my fault.
Hitler, Stalin, Torquemada, Custer, Dick Cheney, Bernie Madoff. The Devil made 'em do it.
But how do you explain the reason for sudden death? A change of heart? Winning Lotto?
There is none.
Call it fate, chance, luck, bad luck or "I have no fuckin' idea".
For most of us, all we can control is ourselves and how we react when the bad shit happens.
Reasons? They're blowin' in the wind.
