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No, but I used to be the type where if something bad happened, I absolutely stewed in misery about it and never learned or grew in any way. My mind was fixated on every negative thing possible and all of my coping mechanisms were negative and harmful.

While I haven't gone full "everything happens for a reason," I've had to learn to identify and appreciate silver linings and the fruits of perseverance in the face of hardship because it's the only way I could get through things.

And I think that's something a lot of people out there haven't learned in any specific manner even though they've seen, done, and had done to them some wild shit. They simply survived and were let with this nebulous idea of getting through or overcoming things and the best they can do to understand and communicate it is this vague platitude that doesn't really do anything.

There are limitations to it, boundaries about how and most importantly when to say it that the kind of person who typically uses it also doesn't understand, but I get the sentiment and it doesn't bother me as much anymore. Still don't like it all that much and wish people were more emotionally mature and emotionally intelligent to not need to see things that way because it ultimately is not that great a way to look at the world.