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He had a funny way about him—babbling on about things that didn’t make sense and laughing about things that didn’t matter. Not the kind of things that didn’t matter to me—things like money, big name fashion or high school—but rather, the kind of things like:

what people thought of who we are and what we should be.

Laughing, not because they were right, but because they thought that, if even for a fraction of a second, they actually had the power to affect the world that we had created for ourselves. A world untouchable by anything and everyone. A world of only us, by us: a world invincible.

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I can’t stand when people say “everything happens for a reason”, solely because it makes life feel predictable when it’s not. There’s no predicting if and and when a plane crashes, how many people die in mass murders or who will break your heart.

“Everything happens for a reason” is just something someone ignorant said to someone else to justify getting hurt, heartbroken, disappointed or let down. Its what people say when they don’t know what else to say, or they can’t empathize with what you’ve experienced. It’s an attempt to rationalize an irrational event–like trying to explain the color orange using only numbers.

We can’t make sense of something we did not have control over or something we did not choose. “Everything happens for a reason” is a lie we tell ourselves in attempt to give closure to our grieving souls. We don’t always get to know why or how things happen, and, in forcing ourselves to accept something as true–in spite of that lack of understanding–we can maintain whatever sense of sanity we have (or had).

It doesn’t make sense.

But here’s something you can make sense of: it’s an unsettling thing, not being able to predict what’s next. Because what’s next is indifferent of you and the existence you’ve built for yourself. So stop justifying, wake up, and hold on for dear life because when nothing is ever absolutely so, that’s all you really can do.