People believe and put faith in the ideal that a person, or animal, or thing, or object causes something, an event, a chain of events, to happen. A pebble rolls down a cliff and causes an avalanche. But what caused the pebble to loosen and roll?
People quickly become lost in infinite chains of causes/event. These are called “causal chains” or “vibrations of string theory, energy”. Things cause other things. Events cause other events. When people become lost, or refuse to keep searching, for original causes, then they believe that “things happen randomly” or without cause, which is false. Rather it’s more obvious that human reasoning and intellect is limited.
Just because you cannot see nor pinpoint the cause of something, of an event, of human interaction, does not mean there was no cause. It’s more sensible and logical that some causes slip under the radar of human perception and consciousness.
In other words, despite the top 1% of human intellect, the best of humanity, the best philosophies of all time, many causes and chains still go unnoticed. The human intellect keeps progressing, and making some discoveries, revealing some chains previously unknown, however, there is always something smaller, more distant, to become aware of.
Perhaps something happend, in the year 1527 AD, that led to your current circumstance today. You’re not aware of it. Your ancestors and ancestry is lost in time. But your great-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandfather made a decision. He chose this, instead of that. And that is why you are, as you are today. Because the cause has been lost/forgotten in time. Lost to you, to humanity, to history, to records, but not lost in existence.
Existence is greater than human knowledge and reason. There are infinite casual-chains. And so, despite the best efforts of humanity, cannot know everything omnisciently. Instead humans can search and discover, with great effort, a small aspect of the questions and mysteries that dominate right now. Some issues, or questions, are more pressing than others. Thus people search for the causation of particular interests.
Causality, and Existence, is like a great universal maze, without beginning nor end, yet humans are still stuck within, never free, but always trapped and enslaved to paths, turns, twists, loops, circles, and few gain the skill and memory to properly traverse the maze of life. But, some answers can become known. You become familiar with a small sub-section of the maze. What you call “privacy”, your “home”, your limited knowledge of existence. People cling to a few corners of the Great Maze.