Life scripts

What makes a movie different from, let's say, a live, random news report, is that the events are scripted to occur in a meaningful, if not predictable way. Not only are they scripted, but the action occurs under the direction of someone outside it. To the untrained eye, the news report and a filmed dramatization of it may look the same. However, if you know what to look for, you can spot which is real and which is a scripted reconstruction.

The same is true for evaluating the events in one's life. If you approach them with the idea that at least some were scripted to happen, then you can look for the clues that identify them as nonrandom events. The key feature of a random event is that it has no relationship to events preceding it or to events following it. When you can begin to see patterns and relationships among the events in your life, then you are on the right track.