Reply #2: to the contrary [View All]

[frogcycle]

much of what happens is by chance

illness, car accidents, muggings... suggesting there is some grand "reason" behind bad things happening to good people is absurd to the extreme.

Yes, "tell yourself you are a good individual and believe in yourself," by all means. But if a big pile of shit falls out of the sky and lands on you, don't think somehow it had a purpose, just do what Joe Biden's dad told him - GET UP! and get on with life. Rationalizing that it had meaning is pointless.

Yes, "You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it."

The people who fled Cambodia in boats with only the clothes on their backs did that; they came here and made new lives; many are successful businessmen and women now. That message is a powerful one. Just don't tell yourself that the shit that happened to you was intentionally done to you by some mysterious power.