I guess everyone has their own philosophies and personal narratives to try to explain how and why things happen the way they do. I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from believing whatever they find helpful. But for me personally, it's not helpful to look for some underlying intent or meaning in events that I consider to be just the way things happened. I don't think there's an underlying reason why some of us are sick, or why some people are swept away by natural disasters while others survive. My own task, as I see it, is to try to deal with the hand I'm dealt and to figure out what I can do to keep on going forward.
