Good doesn’t thank Bad enough
Everything happens for a reason. Something you must have heard at least once in your lifetime. If you haven’t, you aren’t a human yet and…
Everything happens for a reason. Something you must have heard at least once in your lifetime. If you haven’t, you aren’t a human yet and if you also happen to be an Indian, you are automatically disqualified from applying for AADHAAR. That sentence not only wears the crown of all clichés but also keeps dropping it again and again.
Let’s focus on the moment when the crown slips.
We can’t be 100% sure whether everything happens for a reason or not but even those who think that it does often contradict themselves. And most of the times, they don’t realize it. The effort to showcase how amenable you are can strain your viewpoints. Yes, everybody is entitled to their room of vagueness but we can never build monuments of certainty from mere thoughts. Even if we do, they are going to crumble. When the urge to challenge yourself isn’t your top priority — instead of wasting your energy on challenging others—you deserve to stay locked up in your vague room. In the absence of questions that rattle the very foundation of your existence, you’re cursed to stay light years away from galvanizing your essence.
When in doubt, utter something stupid. Saying inane stuff like “Shit happens!” is similar to applying band-aid to a broken heart. Fluffiness soothes temporarily before the hideous reality shocks us. No amount of “Everything happens for a reason” helps in such a scenario. Why? Because we’ve learnt by then that we are tools of our choice and sculptures of our opinion. Meaningless words don’t help when the critical truth behind them are conveniently ignored.
Take Hitler for instance.
He is the best example to expose our moral instability. Everybody would agree that he had monstrous plans in place. There’s not a thread of ambiguity there. However, Holocaust belies the extent of his ineluctable hatred; his white supremacy had little to no place for the colored folks, the Muslims, the homosexuals, the midgets, the atheists and the list goes on and on. Jews were simply the starting point. But while accepting all these recorded facts, we conveniently forgot something: our dependence on everything happening for a reason. He happened for a reason too, then. Didn’t he? Think about it. We often hear that the world would have been different had he not showed up at all. We seldom hear anyone saying that the world would have been VERY different had he succeeded in achieving what he originally set out to achieve. A TV series can’t possibly do justice. By all means, his short-lived triumph turned out to be a success for the world at large. He single-handedly moved the needle on the collapse of imperial world. Of course, that wasn’t part of his design. It’s something that took place over the course of time. But would it be incorrect to suggest that without him bleeding the British and the French the way he did, the wheels of independence in the colonial world would have stalled? Similarly, we read about the horrifics of the concentration camps but never does anyone thank him for ushering the rebirth of Israel. If everything indeed happens for a reason, why shouldn’t the evil get the credit it merits for forcing the good to emerge?
For what they are worth, the sagas of the past teach us that our uncertainty have guided us forward but for how long can we pretend to be fair? If that’s too much to ask for, then injustice indeed happens for a reason.