We must acknowledge that our lives were propelled by factors that were never under our control. All the facts of the universe since the curtains lifted on the Big Bang created a script in which we all briefly appeared before leaving the stage to other performers. We are characters in a production that’s been running for 14 billion years, and our roles were written for us long before we appeared on the scene. And we don’t even know if the show has an author. All of us alive are on stage at the moment, but we’ll soon disappear like the 100 billion human beings who preceded us. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing

We must
acknowledge that our lives were propelled by factors that were never under our control. All the facts of
the universe since the curtains lifted on the Big Bang created a script in which we all briefly appeared
before leaving the stage to other performers. We are characters in a production that’s been running for 14
billion years, and our roles were written for us long before we appeared on the scene. And we don’t even
know if the show has an author. All of us alive are on stage at the moment, but we’ll soon disappear like
the 100 billion human beings who preceded us.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing