Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readSep 8, 2021

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I kmow where you are coming from, but I don’t believe that. I don’t believe life has any meaning. I don’t believe we are here to learn lessons. I don’t believe there is life after death.

Things happen as a result of multiple factors. If I am on the beach in Thailand, and a tsunami comes along, and I die (along with another 100,000 people), it’s not because I had to learn a lesson, or all 100,000 had lessons to learn, or we were all feeling particularly suicidal that day.

The reason is simply that there was an undersea earthquake that created a tsunami, and we were in the way.

People try to find reasons for their suffering because they cannot accept that there was nothing they could do to prevent it. We are simply molecules in a system far greater than we are, and we go where those winds take us.

There are no lessons to learn. When bad things happen, sometimes we did absolutely nothing to trigger them. We simply have to accept them and move on.

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