7- Antonio L: The Unreasonable Events of Life

 The Unreasonable Events of Life

Events that go on in everyone’s lives can be either predictable or unexpected. But what if there was a reason behind every event? 

The actions of others can sway a person’s choices they’ll make in the future. For example, a kid being told they’ll grow up to be a successful person has that positive motivation given to them to strive towards a better goal in their life, compared to a kid who’s told they can’t do much in the future, which will eventually lead to them not doing much or giving up a lot. 

Words mean a lot to people. It’s the means of constructive criticism that can make a person change something about themselves, no matter how small or impactful the statement. Of course, these words can be interpreted in many ways depending on who’s receiving the words or who’s giving the words.

Misinterpretation is the leading effect of this, and ignoring the words said can also occur. These all eventually lead to people committing actions, which all have their own personal goals, good or bad.

But what about things that don’t seem to have a source of reason. The Earth itself and human diseases are some examples of what I mean. The Earth always has weather depending on your region or location. The reasons for certain weather-related events like hurricanes, tornadoes and tsunamis can all be tracked in some way, giving it a reason to occur. But I’ve been beating around the bush, and I haven’t actually gone for the root yet, and that’s the “what ifs?” part or the effects/possible outcomes. 

Like what if a hurricane was heading towards your home, and you ended up homeless? There can’t be any reason for that. Or what if a tornado destroys the home of one of your family members? There’s no faith that happened for a reason.

All of this can be applied with human diseases as well. A person can make all the right choices in their life concerning their health, but they’ll still get an unexpected seizure in their sleep. 

I know this was a huge tone shift, but there’s no way that people can say events like these or ones that affect either them or family members directly happen for a reason. I’ve experienced loss of family members over the years, and I can say for sure that there really was no reason for them to go so abruptly. 

The best people are given for why unreasonable events occur are that it was up to fate, or something that’s highly reasonable, but not the actual reason. Events, mainly tragic ones caused by nature, happen without reason. It’s almost impossible to change the nature of our planet and the nature of all people on Earth, because that’s just how life goes.

 Living and human life in general can be interpreted in many ways, with some believing we have no purpose to be on Earth, a small planet part of a large galaxy full with planets that could possible have other civilizations, and some who believe that our purpose is to fix the errors of others made on Earth, making life equally best for everyone. 

Some choices are reasonable, to a certain extent, but to answer the question, I don’t believe everything happens for a reason.

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