The faith-based reason (past event "x" happened so that, by some greater power up in the sky, current event "y" could exist. e.g. the reason i had a bad breakup was to teach me how to be a better boyfriend.) is self-assigned and posthumous. It's pure hindsight bias.
The world is not so different from the Matrix.
And man is utterly despicable, and the bystander effect is not just local but a global phenomenon, affecting entire countries at a time.
Just a few more days until it's back-to-school-time. -- "I think this is the perfect moment. I wish we could hold onto it forever." "No no...because the beauty of a moment is that its fleeting. By its very nature it slips through our fingers, making it that much more precious."
I was driving today and thought: "Why do I write down (or try to) everything momentous/big in my life?" Why is it so important to me to have a log of what I feel? And why do my attempts to do so turn more into a factual play-by-play of events?
Sure, it's a source of fun/pain/nostalgia/embarrassment when you look back, but does it really serve any actual purpose?
Maybe moments that I feel are significant shouldn't be written down in a little black book that I will never read again after I fill its pages. Maybe such moments should be like photographs: a snapshot of one single moment in time. There is no before or after--just that one isolated instance.
Oh how I wish I could take snapshots that show every single aspect of life at one particular moment in time.
