Sometimes, there will be events in your life that will unfold that you won't ever get an answer for. A sudden death in the family. Being fired from a job you spent the last 20 years working at. Earthquakes and other natural disasters. Even positive things like falling in love with a blind date or finding $20 on a park bench. The point of the matter is that sometimes, randomly, things just, well, happen.
Change is the only constant we have in this life. We like to imagine that there's always some warning signs or things we can control how they unfold - but the fact of the matter is, sometimes fate is just that. Countless philosophers, teachers, scientists, and other learned individuals will spend years, sometimes their entire lives, finding justifications for these "acts of God". Yet, we all experience moments like these.
Think about this: how many individuals out there are "accidents"? Meaning that their conceptions were completely unplanned. Now, an even more interesting question is how many of these "accidents" never should have happened in the first place? Ten to one, you know at least one person who shouldn't be here because one of the parents was sterile, on some form of birth control, or it was the wrong time of the month. Despite all pre-existing logic, the sperm met the egg and life began.
Another unlikely, yet surprisingly common phenomenon are people who are just suddenly cured from cancer. They had gone through treatments that were stabilizing them without actually being the antidote - and then one day the person wakes up completely cancer free. A medical miracle that could last years, if not permanently. Occasionally, when this occurs, it makes the news, but not always.
The point of the matter is this: as humans, it's engrained in us to find meaning in all things. Each quandary must have a solution. Each event must have a logical course of action leading up to it. "For every action, there's an opposite and equal reaction" (Newton's Third Law of Motion). To counterbalance all the chaos we see in the world, there must be some outward predisposition that led up to that point. Those who study history are the ones who spend their lives focused on searching for why were are at the point in time that we are at. We are always in pursuit of the "how" that led up to the "why".
Not every question has an answer and not every event in your life or the lives of those around you has to make sense. Sometimes things just are the way they are. What truly matters is how you approach it when it happens. Are you someone who will accept it for what it is and move on or are you someone who will be consumed by either changing the events or searching for meaning behind them. Are you someone who is going to let a random bad day turn into a bad month because you're incapable of letting go; or do you take advantage of the next dawn and turn it into a better day than the previous?
For it is how you face the questions that lead to how the answers come about. Are you going to be consumed by the things you cannot change or embrace the day for what it truly is: a chance to start again?
