The Lies We Tell Ourselves To Feel Better

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In this short fiction story, we follow the lives of three people affected by the same event, each person believing the event happened for completely different reasons. Can they all be right?

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[junioraguilar]

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how”.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[rafaelperalta]

We, humans, find reasons for almost anything. We love the thought of giving meaning to things, especially to our existence. We are such creatures.
I think it stems from our fears. Fear of being insignificant, fear of being a victim of circumstances, fear of having no importance, etc. I believe it's a defense or coping mechanism. It's our go-to as thinking beings.

[Skagby]

“We humans, we’re all the same. Every last one of us. For some it’s drinking, for some it’s woman, for some even religion, family, the king, dreams, children…power. All of us had to spend our lives drunk on something else we’d have no cause to keep pushing on. Everyone…was a slave to something.” - Kenny Ackerman

[hollywoodbb]

Having been a first responder for a short while, my eyes were really opened to this concept. Life is not all good and serendipitous. Sometimes horrific things happen, and there’s no deeper meaning. You got shafted and that’s the end. You can never tell me a baby dying happens for a reason. Or a son loses his dad that he loved because it’s part of a “plan.”

Life is brutally raw. Entropy is in effect. We don’t have to assign a deeper meaning for events happening. BUT, I believe that we DO have to love hard and make the most of this life. There’s this beautiful, perplexing paradox about life — nothing really matters, but it all matters so damn much.

[Allplussomeminus]

Rebecca and Alithia... I loved them both at the end. Rebecca's optimism and Alithia's nihilism... Seeing light and dark clash like that is awesome.

[cuLiref]

What people seem to always forget about the saying "everything happens for a reason" is the fact that the reason can be positive and can also be negative

[mistyhaney]

"If you are alive, is that not enough?" Not always, being the only one left is not necessarily a good thing. Being forced to choose between solitary despair and actively no longer being alive may be worse than not surviving in the first place.

[ujjwalbhatt]

These videos are absolutely wonderful. Idk but a weird sort of comfort flows through me watching these kind of existential stuff. Lately I have been suffering from Anxiety and panic attacks and feel like I won't make it. But content like these calms me down.

[kusheen...]

Today is my birthday. I'm sipping my coffee and reflecting on my life and what's happened so far, wondering what lays ahead and worrying about an uncertain future. I remind myself to lighten up and not take life too seriously because no one gets out alive. Live in the moment and enjoy the little things, give your all to the things that matter to you and let the pieces fall where they may.

[Shmoji]

I'm dealing with chronic illness that has me in physical pain everyday that continues to get worse each year. This video hit deep

[michelsolon]

"Isn't being alive enough?"

When life beares so much on you, being alive doesn't change much, having a life without purpose or happiness is having no life at all.

It is very hard to be positive and optimistic looking thru a broken lens...

I love the detail that Alithia is a Greek word that means "truth", and she is the one that speaks to the falsehood of the phrase and reveals the truth about it.

[ryanguerin]

I feel like life only has as much meaning as you give it. It’s up to you to find the beauty in the ugly. Because if you just view life through a depressive lens, then how are you ever suppose to get to a point where your happy in life?

[MONARCH_FLIES]

People say you don’t value something until it’s gone.

I almost lost my life (by my own accord), and yet today I absolutely say that
BEING ALIVE IS ENOUGH.

[Arhomomurry]

As far as I know I wasn't ask if i wanted to be born in a human body, so i accept it. I doubt I'll be asked how or when I want to die, so i accept it.
So why would I complain about things not going my way ? It's never been my way, so i accept it and go with the flow.

[Summer-kbdm]

I learned a long time ago....I simply did not matter. Sure I matter to myself, sure I matter to others, and others matter to me. But to some people in the world I know I don't matter.

I simply do not matter to the Universe. It has given me no indication that it thinks, cares, or loves. It just is.

When something really cool happens...I'm happy BUT, just as easily as something good can happen, something else can just as easily crush you without mercy.

[brianmills]

Started reading your book last week and it's been helping me to find meaning in the meaninglessness. Thanks for your work!

[braden_tmoore]

personally i very much prefer living with the philosophy that nothing happens for a predetermined reason. the dominos just fall as they will. i lose the comfort of feeling cared about by the undefined universe, but i also never have my beliefs shattered. i dont need the love of a god or energy, it makes the real human love im surrounded by so much more important and visible.

[JC-ovkc]

I can’t thank this channel enough for the incredible insights about life and reality. I found it in the midst of an existential crisis and it has helped me to come out the other side as better rounded and complete individual. I feel as though I’ve come to terms with death and the confidence and freedom that gives me is incredible. Thank you

[pwabd]

A woman that I connected with randomly after she unmatched me on tinder said "everything happens for a reason" when I mentioned we were having a good conversation and asked why she unmatched. I responded with "good point, maybe the universe was protecting me from you." She didn't know how to respond. Oh well...