One of the reasons why I hate the slogan “everything happens for a reason” is because people (specially the pseudo-religious ones) use it as a refuge for the things that get out of hand or for the many experiences that happen in their lives.

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So many times have I encountered a person with a problem or with a burdened heart that would go about things saying “may <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />plano ang Diyos kung bakit nangyari itoh.” True, God indeed has plans but that doesn’t necessarily mean that everything that happens in our life is happening because that is how he WILLED it! Wake up Guys! God gave us the freedom to choose and to stand up for ourselves; He gave us life to live, not a script to play! Can’t we at least acknowledge the fact that maybe things are the way they are because of our own doing??

Even if God has a perfect plan for all of us, we should never surrender things to destiny and fate; we hold the power to mold our own future. We should learn to be responsible for our actions. We should learn to do things our way by the will of God. And maybe, just maybe, if we learned to do these things and not use God as an excuse, maybe our oppressions in life would lessen. Maybe if we would then realize what it means to LIVE.

“Repeated experiences have but one aim; to teach you what you don’t want to learn”