To ask your experience of everything happens for a reason?

[Wantswhatnot77]

I have recently experienced a series of unfortunate events and have been frequently been told ‘everything happens for a reason’. At the moment, it doesn’t feel like it, so can I ask any positive ‘everything happens for a reason’ that you’ve experienced?

@thetrumanshow previous posters have told their experiences of people using this gormless phrase for incredibly traumatic life events including cancer and multiple deaths.

It doesn't though does it! Its just something people say for the sake of it, maybe to make you feel better or themselves but really its stupid, sometimes things work out and sometimes life is shit that's kind of it really.

Only stupid people who haven't been through real crap would come out of this nonsense. It's such an ignorant statement, I don't know where to begin.

Sometimes, by fluke something good may come out of a bad situation but it absolutely doesn't mean that everything happens for a reason.

Technically everything does happen for a reason, but of course not in the divine sense. It’s such a crass thing to say.

I agree with others it’s an utterly thoughtless and crass thing to say. What’s the “reason” for the death of a child, for example?

I assume people saying this mean well, but would do better to wish you well and for positive things to come, not imply that your heartbreak or misfortune was inevitable/planned/in your own best interests.