When the understanding of the causes of events gives out and leaves a plurality of possibilities, and these possibilities are seen to occur to no pattern and to, in aggregates, exhibit behaviour consistent with a uniform probability distribution (measured via a copula, if required) then we call the events random. This is a simplified definition that includes coin-tosses and dice-throws, where the possibles form a clearly delimited set. In many other cases there is the quality of randomness without such a set, even in principle. In waking life, long sequences of events seem to take place as if we were in a two-player game with the cosmos. We choose an action out of the finite set of possibilities available to us in our situation and the cosmos responds with an experience and a modified situation out of which a new set of possible actions for us is produced. There is randomness on both sides, however only on our side is there a set of possibilities. Our acts presume meaning-for-us and are hence constrained by language in a broad sense, the cosmos, however, is unconstrained. We see patterns and turn these into stories, collapsing randomness for the sake of sheer narrativity, for love of the characters in the narratives.