To us, some events are random. That's because we don't quite understand why they took place, nor sometimes, the order in which they took place. But to the Initiators of such "randomness", it wasn't just a happening. It was a decision. (It's like how mom and dad decide to take the kids out. To the kids, it's a surprise. But to mom and dad, it was a decision they made.) So, I believe the universe we live in has a Governing Agency. To this Governing Agency, happenings are a decision. But to us, to humanity, it's a series of algorithms, physics, laws, heuristics and sometimes, happenstance. David Deutsch would say, "If you can't program it, you don't understand how it works." That's true, we can't program the order of the universe; we can't program the changes of events and make accurate predictions of the future, either in earnest or deep in the horizon. To us, it's circumstantial randomness.
It's just sad that we are not always in such a meeting when certain decisions that affect our lives are made. And even when we might understand that those decisions are about to be made, there isn't much we can do to influence the final result. Why are you in certain places, just when you did? Why were you born to your family? How did you get here? Why such order in the universe? Why do we fall in love with who we do? (And do they reciprocate our love?) Why are we passionate about one thing and not another? Why am I doing this?
Sometimes, we think we can answer these questions, but most times, we can't. Well, at least, we could give some rational explanations and say, "Were it not for this, this would not have been," or "If this had happened, this would also have happened." Uuh... that's an oversimplification of life. I believe there are more than a million ways one's life could turn out. If it's possible for one event in the past to be changed, it's practically unlikely to predict the consequential outcome of how that change might affect today. (In fact, the farther today is from the past when that event occurred, the worse our predictions will be.) For instance, if you were born to a wealthy family, instead of a middle-class family, it doesn't have to correlate that today you'd be happier. Probably yes, and maybe no.
In the few years I've been alive, the only things I have discovered that can affect this circumstantial randomness, in some significant way, are Human will, Environment and Divine intervention. And that's where the Polarity part comes in.
The polarity of life's randomness is what offers us the opportunity to see happenings as either evil or good; it offers us the opportunity to choose a side, the invitation to dream or complain, to love or resent, to thrust or relent, to hope or be cautious.
Every single day is an opportunity to become, to choose the better side of the polarity of life. I hope you open your eyes and see the world differently. I hope you see the invitation that each day offers you. You don't have to ignore or despise those on the other end; you need them; we all need each other. But most times, they think life, ideas and happenings are a singularity. Show that it's a polarity: light or darkness, life or death; heaven or hell. They only chose a different end.
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