One clings to the past and the other focuses on the future. We have all seen examples of this, but one that has been a deep inspiration to me is that of a good friend who a few years ago lost her husband in a terrible accident. He had just retired early, they had two very young children to raise, and a lifetime of plans ahead.
In one terrible instant everything changed. It's a scenario that few of us would ever care to contemplate. Would you want to be the one to tell her it happened for a reason? No reason could justify that pain for her and her family and the loss of a life so suddenly cut short. Instead she set out to create something that brought her, her children, and countless others to a place of healing by establishing an organization that helps those who have lost a spouse cope with the sudden loss.
The look of joy in her eyes and the passion in her voice today is because she made the courageous choice to create meaning from something that will never have, nor should have, any acceptable reason. The truth is that the "reason" bad things happen isn't somehow baked into our life's trajectory. Terrible things do not happen for reasons we can understand, or even accept. But that doesn't mean that we are helpless. We are the ones who give meaning to what happens in our life--with or without an acceptable reason.
If you are perpetually looking for the reason to somehow make itself known to you, to magically appear, to fall from the sky, neatly wrapped with a bow, then you are avoiding the much harder work of taking what happened to you, and to others who were impacted by it, and creating something that has value; something which you will look back on with the pride of knowing that you weren't following a script but instead writing it.
Whether it's a business failure, a personal loss, or a professional setback, the same lesson applies. We don't own events or their reasons. We own what we do with them. Make no mistake, however, creating meaning requires heavy lifting, and infinitely more effort than accepting some unforeseen reason that you have no control over. It means moving from being a victim of your circumstances to a creator of your future, shaping despair and pain into hope, failure and loss into success.
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons. Eventually all things fall into place. Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry.
Nothing good gets away. On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma.
So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both. I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. So, I do believe that if you can maintain that everything happens for a reason, you can find the strength and the lesson in those difficult moments and grow stronger. Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.
Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed. Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life. Everything is happening just as it should.
I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents. I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. Every day we present the best quotes!
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