Is the Universe Arbitrary?

That is usually a question for people much more philosophical than I am.  But I have noticed some things in life that tend to swing my opinion on the matter.

 

If the universe is arbitrary, i.e. everything in it happens randomly, with arbitrarily equal odds for everybody, then why is it so often "arbitrary" in my favor?  And why is it so often "arbitrary" with misfortune against certain individuals?  Who am I to defy the laws of random chance?  Over time, you would expect essentially the same amount of misery and joy to visit every individual.  Why, when some people get minor cuts on their skin, and take drastic measures to clean and care for the injury, do they still get horrible swollen infections?  While in contrast, I can get cut deep with a rusty machete, or wander around through dirt and rivers with no skin on my feet with no subsequent cleaning or caring for the injury, and continue to wander about with no hint of infection.  Why are some families plagued with malady after malady, physical, emotional (both external and internal) distress at every turn, while other families remain virually worry free?

 

If the universe is arbitrary, why isn't it simply falling apart around us, according to the laws of entropy?  Again, over time, all things should simply decay into equilibrium, there should be no large masses, there should be no energy driving anything, there should only be a luke warm, rather thin soup of homogenous matter lying perfectly still.

 

But it isn't.  And it doesn't.

 

The universe is merely a space in which The Plan is carried out.  The universe has been constructed for this purpose.  The universe tries to follow standard arbitrary protocol, but sometimes it can't.  The Plan will not allow it.  The rules of arbitration, sometimes bend around certain people.  They are not immune to consequence, and are subject to normal laws of physics, as everyone is.  But certain disasters, things that would collide head on with normal people because they just happened to be in the way of the random event, somehow miss these individuals.  The universe causes these events to change course and curve around the path of these individuals.  That is not the behavior of a random, arbitrary universe.

 

The Plan does not negate or controvene free agency at all.  Any individual may opt out of The Plan at any time.  At which point, normal rules of randomness take over and that person, regardless of who they are, is subject to the arbitrary tendencies of the universe, and The Plan can no longer bend the universe around them.  And here is the really good part, any individual may opt IN to The Plan at any time as well, thus making themselves subject to the higher laws, and immune to the random arbitrary whims of the universe.