The Two Ways to Look at Life

Random or connected?
I guess I could say that I do tend to believe everything in life is connected; things that occur, occur for a reason as apposed to events happening randomly. In Chuck Klosterman’s article “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, he groups one’s outlook in life into two categories: events happen for a reason or life’s events are out of pure luck. I find I consider that everything that takes doesn’t just happen out of luck because I personally want to believe that the people I meet, the places I go to, and the events I'm faced with happen for a reason, whatever that reason may be. Believing that everything happens for a reason gives me closure and makes me as an individual feel more secure about the things that take place around me. Although, sometimes events I’ve faced seem to make no sense and occur randomly, and often I want to believe life’s events happen out of luck. However, viewing what occurs through the reasoning of fate seems like a more rational way of looking at things.