what is life?

"Everything happens for a reason": A popular girly quote that is used to express an excuse for something bad that happened in ones life.

Maybe, nothing really happens for a reason. Maybe, because time is a different dimention, the events that unfold are completely out of our control and in actually life is just a string of random coincidences. Yes, other events do effect outcome of the future, however an event does not occur for one pin point of an explaination. Life is just a series of events and those that are to come are influenced by the later, however cannot soley relay on the earlier... In that case wouldn't a good person never have anything bad happen to them and a bad person only have bad. For what possible reason could an innocent person have died? They simply might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. They decided to eat french toast for breakfast instead of cereal this morning and now their heart stopped beating?! You rob a local grocery store and win the lottery the next day. In actuality nothing happens for a reason, things happen on their own. They may be influenced by the choices we make in life, however the events of the world are simply a mixture of everyone's actions intertwining.
Those are my thoughts about today. I wish I had followers to respond.