Everything happens for a reason

If everything that happens has a cause and an effect, we might say that everything happens for a reason. After all, whatever it is that is happening has had a cause that has set it into motion ~ independent of whether we like that cause or even agree with that particular cause.

It is something that is often a lot easier to look at on a national ~ or even global ~ scale, than it is to observe it happening in our own lives, our direct environments. But it is happening nonetheless, as cause and effect are universal influences that are always at play…

The statement that everything is happening for a reason is not necessarily a popular statement as it implies that even ‘bad’ or ‘negative’ things have a reason that have caused them.
The truly interesting thing though is that what appears to be really bad at the time, may ultimately influence our lives in a very positive way! And it is not just hardships that have this effect on us; after all, “That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger”. But also accidents, conflicts, projects that ‘fall through’, forced relocations ~ all of these things can have a very positive effect on us, and on the world in general. Although we may not be able to see that yet; and in all fairness, it may take a long time before we can actually see the good that has come out of it. Sometimes even up to fifteen or twenty years.

So where does that leave us?
Or perhaps even: ‘What does that have to do with us?’

Well, we have a choice as to how we react to things we see happening in the world.
We can either say that ‘The world is going to hell in a hand-basket’, and join in the negativity of the situation at hand. Or we can actively seek out the tiny points of light in that particular situation; actively looking for the good that it may bring…

We even have a choice as to what we cause to happen in our own lives. If we, for instance, keep telling ourselves and the world around us that we don’t have enough ~ whether that is time, money, housing, job, transportation, perhaps even motivation ~ than chances are that we are causing a situation for ourselves that may turn out to be worse than the situation we are in right now.

So, if everything happens for a reason, lets bring positive reasons into our lives and into our world. And if we find ourselves not being able to influence the reason at this point in time, then lets at least actively pursue that which is positive and good!
In our own lives as well as in the world.
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