Thank you for reflecting on this, I enjoyed reading it!
I also support the theory that the reason something happens for is not something that lies in the past nor future, it is something that we have to generate ourselves in the present.
You would have never been able to show your client your level of organisation if the tire didn’t break.
Everything happens for a reason" is a reminder to us that we are in control of our own fate and that we can generate meaning out of everything that is happening to us and therefore become authors of our own story!