For something like 60 years, Iâve been driven to understand the Big Picture. Although I focus particularly on the human world, I also try to comprehend the rest of what weâre part of â from things at the smallest level (like subatomic particles) through the story of life on earth to the incomprehensibly astronomical (like distances measured in light-years). I feel a need to wrap my mind around the whole mind-boggling reality in which we find ourselves, sentient beings capable of standing in awe of the mystery of it all. Which gets to my problem. Although I want to see the Big Picture, I also have a need to see myself as something of âimportance.â