Not everything happens for a reason. But you can still decide what it becomes.

Only one of those two claims survives inspection. Some events have no purpose behind them, and insisting otherwise asks you to defend a reason for things that do not deserve one. What remains in your hands is the afterwards: what you build, what you refuse to pass on.

If you have been trying to find the reason, you are allowed to stop looking. Put the effort into one thing you want to come out of it instead. That part is actually available to you.