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@Woof_Ghost Everything that falls, must eventually hit the ground.

@sargoth_ebooks Profound.

Yes, it’s what I call the “domino effect”. I always think this way, even with simple things like rearranging furniture. “if i put this here, this this can go here, and that can go there, and then we’ll have room for this” type of thing. Maybe poeple just need to have certain logical or logistical thinking before they’ll accept something like “everything happens for a reason”.

Katjaneway  I am so sorry to hear about your loss. That is the way that I look at it, the way that I follow the dominos. But if it’s the word “everything” that gets people, perhaps we should just start saying “things”. I’m sure the fact that I misplaced my neosporin this morning doesn’t have that big of an effect on my life, but maybe if not for that I would have fallen back asleep and not heard my alarm, thus not having time to get ready… but there’s no use in guessing the what-ifs of a future that won’t happen.

knightndaze  Stephanie Force  I’d like to comment here and say although one shouldn’t SAY “everything happens for a reason” because really, that’s not a comfort to anyone in shitty times, it can be true. My comment earlier stated that not EVERYTHING happens for a reason, but if you look back on something to what you are today, it happened for a reason, did it not? The only reason I’m commenting here is because my fiancee died in 2005. I had just graduated from HS in 2002 with no college or anything, so I was working retail, which I hated with a passion. But we couldn’t afford to go to school or anything… we were barely surviving. And then he passed away. Because of that, I lost my job at Grocery Outlet, and was forced to move back in with my parents. Instead of them sending me out into KFC, they thought to help pay for some schooling for me. I ended up taking a 3 month medical billing course (which is all they could afford) and got temp work in medical records thanks to my newfound knowledge. That experience doing temp work in medical records gave me the slight edge I needed to find my perfect job. Now I’m working in a place that I love, and that never would have happened otherwise. Or, maybe it would have, but we’ll never know. I’m not happy that my fiancee passed away. I would give anything in this world  and give up what I have now to go back and save his life. But through his tragic death, things turned out okay for me in the end. That’s all I’m saying.

knightndaze  I’ll be sure to pass your advice along. But the whole idea of “Everything happens for a reason” is all about keeping optimism, even in the darkest of times. I’m not trying to justify that her dying is so that I can write blog posts and plays, I’m saying that is how I’m learning and handling this whole experience. And who knows, perhaps the words I have written will go and touch the lives of others and give them something to think about or find comfort in. Life is a line of dominos. When one falls over, it hits another to then knock the rest down. Each fall is an event that has effect on the ones following it. Sure it may seem something that’s elementary, but that’s just the way I see how a tragedy can bring good in the end.

Stephanie Force  I’m sorry your friend is dying. That’s really sad. But I’m pretty convinced she’d not dying so you can write blog posts and plays. Also, I bet if I were dying I wouldn’t give a rat’s posterior about some as-yet-unknowable reason. Lastly, if possible, please make sure your friend leaves messages for her son, and premake some for his big milestones with advice and whatnot. It’ll make an incredible difference in knowing that she did not abandon him. (From experience)