Is there a reason behind every thing that happens to us?

Question

If there is a reason behind every event that happends to us,then why do we feel that nothing came of it.Sometimes, i don't seem to find a reason,good or bad.
If there is no reason,then do you think everything that happens to us is a coincidence?

Answer 1

In the sense of cause-and-effect, of course there is a reason behind everything. But we don't always know what it is. I heard a guy telling a story once who said, "I was going to the store, and usually took a shortcut across this field. But I got this strong feeling I shouldn't go across the field, so I went around." Everybody waited a moment, then somebody asked, "So.... why shouldn't you have crossed the field?" The guy answered, "I don't know! I didn't cross it!" Does that mean nothing came of his heed to his intuition or prompting? I don't think so. I think he at least had practice in heeding promptings, and possibly averted a personal disaster. We don't always know, probably usually don't know, what comes of our actions.

Coincidence? I don't think so. I think what happens to us is either for a purpose for us, or for someone else. That means that a lot of what happens to us is "chance". Say a drunk driver hits your car and you get injured. You happened to be the person who received what somebody else was handing out. I think he was allowed to make his decsion to drink and then drive. He has the experience of what happens when he does that. Does that mean you were chosen to be the one to receive the injury? No. But what you do about your injury, your attitude and how it affects your own decisions... that's not coincidence.

To know that there is no reason for anything, and everything is chance... that's a staggering concept. To know that there is a definite reason for everything, and everything is already all worked out... that's a staggering concept. Neither is very nice to think about. And I think they are both incorrect. Usually, the reality of things is not anything so simple as all one way or all another. I think that if we look backward and say "what was the reason for that?" it won't help us much. I think if we look forward and say "whatever the reason, this is how I'm going to deal with it..." that is what makes the game of life worthwhile. We may not be in control of what happens to us, but we are in control of what we do about it. And if there was a reason for whatever happened, we'll be fulfilling that purpose at the same time.

Answer 2

Yes. It's called choice. Every choice we make has an effect of some sort.

For example, say you get hit by a drunk driver. Why did it happen? Was it their choice or yours? Did you choose not to be observant enough to see them coming? Perhaps, perhaps not. Perhaps it was a subconcious choice caused by the thought it wasn't necessary to look.

I don't believe coincidence is a valid word in our language. Everything happens as a result of some other action. Cause-and-effect is a common definition of coincidence. Cause-and-effect really is something that happened (that would have anyway) when you thought you caused it to happen. For example, if you go outside early in the morning and pray there will be light, well shortly after there will be. So cause-and-effect could lead you to believe you caused the sun to come up (even though it would have anyway).

Answer 3

You are expecting an immediate understanding of an action. I believe in the ying yang theory. What goes around comes around, but it's not always that fast. Think of it more like tapestry. When you are under the tapestry, the strings hang and don't make any sense. As you stand over the tapestry, the pattern all makes sense. I also think of cleaning chaos like cleaning your closet. The bedroom is going to be a mess when you take everything out of the closet, but once you organize the closet and put everything away, the bedroom looks better as well as the closet. Everything in good time, my dear. Patience for understanding.

Answer 4

There are reasons behind everything that happens, whether we are aware of them or not. If an event fails to arouse a response from you then you might want to find out more about it. If you don't feel like responding to an event, then that is a choice you have made (one you may have made instantaneously), and all decisions are based on some sort of logic.

Answer 5

See DETERMINISM.

Your question asks others if they believe in DETERMINISM.

There will always be Reason. The Reason is sometimes the Reason itself.

I will leave you with a quote:
"Indeed, every freely conceived choice, with its appropriate actino, constitutes to a certain extent a new beginning within the space-time continuum, a new point of departure that may set into motion an entire series of deterministic sequences."

Understand the essence of Reason before you can be content.

Answer 6

To say that there is a reason behind everything is akin to saying that there is a book somewhere (on some level of consciousness) that has a page in it with your name and a notation of the exact number of days you will live or the exact number of steps you will take in your life. This whole line of reasoning is specious and spawned by religious belief. As T.E. Lawrence said "Nothing is written."

Answer 7

In a world that exist in a perpetual state of chaos it is virtually meaningless to expect that things happen for a reason--when in truth most of what happens occurs randomly and unintentionally
with most outcomes requiring further changes all of which elevates us to new and higher levels of instability.

Answer 8

no longer some thing happening with out causes... yet reason do no longer make issues occurred... i't's like u open refregirator becouse...? this Q. about " ... human's attempt to locate reason behind each and everything what behind suggestions( reason)".

Answer 9

Everything happens for a reson, althouhg ee do not always know the reason. Sometimes we find out after the fact; sometimes not.

Answer 10

yes there is a reason for everything but we dont always know wht it is. sometimes we never find out.