I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."-p150, NOTES TO SELF

Avery Sawyer
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I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."-p150, NOTES TO SELF This quote is an example of the timeless wisdom of the philosophy of existentialism. It deals with our human desire to find meaning in life and also our tendency to believe that there is some grand design behind everything that occurs in the world around us. According to the existential philosophers, we find this meaning in three different ways: we can find it in our own lives; we can find it in the lives of others; or we can find it outside ourselves and in the universe and in our place and time and in our collective consciousness.

Source: Notes To Self

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