Thursday, November 5, 2015

TIMING SOMETIMES MAKES THE CLICHE A FORM OF VERBAL VIOLENCE

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     I’m listening to a man tell a story. A woman he knows was in a devastating car accident; her life shattered in an instant. She now lives in a state of near-permanent pain; a paraplegic; many of her hopes stolen.
     He tells of how she had been a mess before the accident, but that the tragedy had engendered positive changes in her life. That she was, as a result of this devastation, living a wonderful life. And then he utters the words. The words that are responsible for nothing less than emotional, spiritual and psychological violence:
Everything happens for a reason. That this was something that had to happen in order for her to grow.
That's the kind of bullsh*t that destroys lives. And it is categorically untrue.
Tim J Lawrence


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http://www.timjlawrence.com/blog/2015/10/19/everything-doesnt-happen-for-a-reason

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