What can we do when something happens for no apparent reason?
We can do our best. We can find a place for this something in a new story—a story that makes more sense than the one we had before.
And yet, we have to remember that our new story, even if it spans the age of the universe, only exists here and now.
Storytelling is always part speculation. Facts (whether we like it or not) are strung together by stories. New facts change stories, and stories make new facts comprehensible.
Life’s events are neither meaningful nor meaningless without our stories.