(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/booming/a-car-to-give-a-sandy-survivor-with-a-need.html?_r=0)

My Old Toyota Sputtered. Then Came the Storm.

By PAULA SPAN
Published: November 13, 2012

  This article talks about a person who was generous enough to give away her Toyota truck to a family who had lost all that they had. That truck meant so much to her she had it for years and she couldn’t come to the conclusion if she should sell it or not! So don’t you think that if everything didn’t happen for a reason she wouldn’t have sold the Toyota truck before the accident happened to the poor family? There is a reason why time made her wait because, she would have had the option to give the truck to the family and have they paid in payments with time. That should have gave her the idea of why she didn’t sell it before. But she still says in her article she doesn’t believe in the “everything happens for a reason” saying. She thinks that it was just the time and place for it.  Although we have different opinions it makes me happy that there could be generous people like her out there, because now a days people can be quiet selfish all they think about is themselves and have no sense of humor, or a kind heart.

“That saying that everything happens for a reason? I’ve never bought it. It’s painfully clear that some things — natural disasters, freak accidents, Mariano Rivera tearing up his knee in May — happen for no reason at all. Life is random.”

But is life truly random? Here is what she also says about life being random.

"I've spent a lot of time reading and reflecting on many great philosophies and religions, many of which attempt, in some degree to address the question of purpose. What are we here for? Where is this all headed? Do I have a destiny and am I fulfilling it? A large part of the debate focuses on how much of the direction of life is what it is, without any input from us, we're just following the plan we were born to carry out, how much of it is more a general schema, with our free will determining variances in the carrying out of that general plan, and how much is completely random and arbitrary. Sometimes, after all of this reflection, I feel no closer to understanding these fundamental questions than I did when I started. I've often wished I were a simpler person who could more easily accept and surrender to the unpredictability of events. I know intuitively that true answers are found within  everything else is just a series of external factoids - pieces of information and advice designed to help us access that innate wisdom given to us at birth, with which we're supposed to nurture and grow as we travel along this oddly random path. Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor".

We humans are random as well, we do things that we shouldn’t and then complain because it doesn’t work the way we want it to, but it’s our entire fault at the end! We just have to get used to the fact that life is tough and it all depends on how we react to our problems, because that will make us the better person at the end!  Have fun it’s okay to be random J