"Does There Have To Be A Reason For Everything?" or "Yes, Yes There Does"

[Seil]

I like sunflowers. I do. They're not my flower, but they're big and colorful and smell nice and junk. I was thinking that 'I like flowers. What do flowers do? Flowers are pretty, they smell nice, they..." And that's where I got lost. I thought of my loves - liquor literally hurts me. Women do too, but usually with secondary things like mace.

I've long held that everything happens for a reason, a belief that I sometimes can't always justify because the reason isn't always immediately obvious. (And because I'm me, I always try to put a positive spin on it.) The idea though, that everything happens for a reason, can be worded differently, to the extent that there is a reason for everything. If we look at it like that, we can see the beauty in everything. I - quite serious here, chaps -- and chappettes -- don't want to start a whole mind numbing thread where people discuss the reasoning behind coffee tables, because it's self evident.

We could talk about fires and floods and crime and warfare and all those horrible things, but why not talk about nice things first? I mean, we could discuss a sunset - the reasoning behind something of infinite and majestic beauty is that the Earth keeps turning. We could talk about how a flower smells nice - I think the reasoning is to attract bugs for pollination? We could talk about how wind feels, and that's just air pressure or whatever!

The point that I'm trying to make is that the most wonderful and beautiful and majestic things - that we can be touched by a loved one, or that we can watch a fire burn, or that we can hear the song of a bird, or whatever - those things are natural. There's a reason behind them. It's what's been happening for thousands of years. And we've chosen to see the beauty in that.

"We can complain the fact that rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice the fact that thorn bushes have roses."

Inspired by: John Butler Trio - One Way Road