The Tree of Life

I have to say that the scene we watched from this film was incredible. With context from the actual movie it has a very profound impact on a person. Now I have not seen the entire thing, just clips here and there but i want to give a bit of context to this scene. It comes after a woman loses her son and she asks God for help. I feel the scene is a visual explanation that god makes all thing in the universe. People often think they are the most important things in it but this puts into perspective how small we really are. I feel that we as a people have a need that is unfulfilled and it is one that many people will never fulfill. Humanity needs to understand that we are not the important things in the universe but just a part of the importance of the universe. The beginning the middle and the end are unknown to us and we don't know where we fall on the spectrum so it is important to embrace the beauty of it and accept what we are. Striving for greatness is a task that is admirable, but in the end who is to say it matters at all. To strive for honor is to worry what people think, to strive for money is to worry about things, and the strive for power is to strive for memory. None of these matter in a universe that decays and in a world where we all cease to exist. So I think that success in life is to be content and accepting of the unknown. All dictators fall and all life is but a spec on the timeline of space. Experiencing our own lives and sharing them with family and friends is what matters, because in the end of it all who is to say anything else does.