The Oscars are coming yet probably the greatest movie of all hasn’t even been nominated.  The movie?  Life, or more specifically our life.

With the advent of the internet, I’m sure you, like me, get emails with all kinds of thoughts regarding life in general, our life and our relationships with others (Maybe you’ve read a blog or two about the subject.)  Some are trite and some are worthy of consideration.  It seems everyone is trying to make sense of life and our conduct while getting through it, so to speak.  To me, one of the most simplistic and accurate descriptions of life comes from Joseph Campbell, noted mythologist.  He said, "Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what is going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends."

When you think about it, that pretty much sums up life.  We weren't around for the opening scenes and won't be around after the curtain finally comes down.  When the cast of players are listed, we will be even less than a bit player.  After all, there are over 6 billion players in the current scene of life's movie; and that's without all who came before and all who are yet to enter stage right or left.

As for those questions, they just seem to pile up.  We aren't even smart enough to know all the questions to ask.  Of those questions we do ask, they range from the mundane (what's for dinner?  Will it rain tomorrow?) To the profound (Why are we here?  Is there life similar to ours in other galaxies?). 

Yet, for all that one might trivialize our role in our life's epic movie, in our little vignette we loom large.  For good or ill, our existence plays a major part in those lives that touch ours.  And maybe, just as that butterfly fluttering its wings on a Himalayan mountain affects the global weather, our actions may well greatly influence the big picture in ways we can't imagine.