Do you believe everything happens for a reason?

Question

I believe this and want to hear other people's opinions on this. I think that mistakes are made so we learn from them. That even bad things happen for a reason and we shouldn't regret anything in life because everythng that has happened has made us who we are today. What does everyone think?

I like the feedback I'm getting from the peopel who don't agree with me. It's making me think alot and alot of what you're saying is true.

Answer 1

Shït Happens – sometimes it’s Good Shït and other times it’s Bad Shït – sometimes it happens to good people and sometimes it happens to bad people.
It depends on where you are too – physically and or mentally.

Sometimes Bad Shït will happen to you and you’re in such a good mood it doesn’t affect you; other times the smallest little thing will set you off cos you’re down.

Shït is in the eyes of the beholder and it’s happening alla time – one person’s Good Shït is another person’s Bad Shït.
It’s just Shït – it’s what happens between Birth and Death – it’s what fills a life.
You can take it seriously or not - either way it’ll still happen – you can’t ever stop Shït from happening except by dying and that happens to us all ... often all too soon.
Get over it; get used to it.

Some day you’ll pray for Shït to happen but you’ll be all worn out from taking little, unimportant Shït too seriously … it’ll be too late and that’s Bad Shït.
You’ll remember the times that Bad Shït happened but because you’re older and wiser you’ll recognise it as having been Good Shït.
And Visa Versa.

Answer 2

There are those who had bad things happen to them long before they were able to control their lives or even think along those lines. Years later they are still having an effect, but the effect can be beaten into the ground by a personality that is violent and feels little or no emotion. The personality feels nothing towards the problems of others. It is geared to survive and survive it does; at all costs to whomever. You can say that everything happens for a reason, but you cannot say that it produces good or even that it happened for a good reason.

AEN

Answer 3

I ultimately think that everything does happen for a reason. When I've encountered trying times, I initially felt like someone made them happen. But looking back after, I realized that it was kind of like destiny. I had to go through those lessons to get to the better place at I am now. Hard times and good times all can teach us lessons. I think everything we go through has that potential and has a reason for happening. We just have to realize it and learn from them.

Answer 4

Yes everything happens for a reason.

And who is the silly billionaire paying $3 million for the ping pong balls? Seems like the reason behind that would be for an example of what not to do with all that cash.

("otis spunkmeyer

throw 6 billion ping pong balls in a canyon and see what happens. Get the picture")

Answer 5

Life is full of lessons and moral checks and balances. I do not believe that everything happens for a reason, however, DO believe that everything that happens, can be explained.
I'm intrigued by the question, and am not sure my arguement would be logical enough to qualify as a good one, lol.
If you're referring to there being some sort of divine chosen pathway that we all tread on differently, I'm not buying it. I believe that stuff happens and it happens randomly. That's why ALL of us have asked, at one point or another, "Why him/her/me?"

Great question, though...wtg.

Answer 6

We have some control of things that happen to us, we have some effect on what happens to other people, but there are many things that occur randomly, for no reason, these occur, and we sometimes can learn from what occurs to us and sometimes do not learn.
It is certainly not true to say that everything happens for a reason.

Answer 7

i truly dont believe in coincidence, there are too many examples in my life alone where every little thing happened for a reason, and most things you dont even realize. i believe that the people you meet, the places you are, the things you do, are meant to be. every experience you have..u take something from. you should watch signs, its a little overdone but the concept is meaningful

Answer 8

I believe everything happens for a reason. And the only bad mistake is one we learn nothing from.

Answer 9

agree!! i believe everything has some kind of reason. i believe my hard times are to help others that are or will go through the same thing that might not be as strong as me to overcome.

Answer 10

yes i belive this but not in the way everybody elce does. most ppl think it means something of a higher power. if you get you but kicked one day it most likely happend for a reson, like you may have called them a name or said something about there momma a week before. everything that happends to you and everything you do happends for a reason but ppl make things happen and ppl are the reason things happen......