Chris Roberts please stop saying “everything happens for a reason”.
Everything does not.
Most things happen for no reason, or at least no reason that sits within either causal logic (this led to that) or / and something happened because of a predetermined outcome (‘starting your own brand was always going to work’ is easy to say when the brand has worked).
“Everything happens for a reason” is very insulting to the majority of the world who live daily with hardships that are no fault of their own.
Mass shootings, having your neighbourhood bombed, drowning at sea while trying to seek asylum, sexual violence, genocide, hunger, terminal illness, genetic disease, stray bullets, mass layoffs, foreclosure… etc.
The problem is, podcast hosts only say “everything happens for a reason” to describe an upturn in fortunes.
What Roberts means to say is, “good things can come out of bad situations”.
Or like resident human-centric host Kelly Hart likes to say: “it was a blessing in disguise”.