In fact, I'm wondering, “What might be the real question behind your question?” You seemed to relate to your past experience when you quoted “bad things happen to good people” as a fact. Is that an absolute fact or your opinion manifested from your experience? To give some good counter examples isn't difficult, but I'd like you to recall your early childhood.

A human life is structured; it unfolds in phases, and we journey along “the path of life” as though it were a sort of road map leading on in a general direction. Direction? Is life then goal-directed? Are we driven, deeply and perhaps unconsciously, toward something or away from something? Is life inherently meaningful, carrying us toward an ultimate goal, or is it meaningless?

Each single life is like a living drama played out in space and time against the backdrop of eternity. In each life, the curtain has gone up and the play is in progress.We haven’t read the script; the plot remains unknown. We can’t foresee the scenes yet to be played out or when the play will end because, as in live theater, the plot is developed extempore as line follows line and scene follows scene.