Why is life so peculiar?

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Just what I said - Why is life so peculiar? It seems like every time something is going as expected, a stick appears in the works and life leaves you guessing.

(Note: I'm 12. Write your answers using proper spelling and grammar, please, as I'm a "spelling Nazi" and will obsessively correct you and your "chat-speak")
 
Humans tend to interpret their lives as a continuous narrative, a "story" with a "plot"; however, this is not at all the case. As Kurt Vonnegut wrote, "God never wrote a good play in His life." This is a topic much investigated by the Absurdist movement, which attempted to embrace the fact that life seems to be totally random and nothing makes any sense. Because we have free will and our lives were not planned out by an author, nothing ever really happens the way it's "supposed to". Things just happen. Nothing is a plot device.

One famous Absurdist play is Waiting for Gadeau. It's absurd because the character Gadeau never shows up, and nothing really "happens" in the plot. Just as in life, things don't always work out in a nice, satisfying, way like the great comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare.
 
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