Excerpts from Fresh Air interview with Frank Langella

Frank Langella gave an interview at Fresh Air from WHYY August 2012.  It happened to be on the radio the other day, and I was fortunate to catch the tail end of the interview.  I found Langella's interview to be very moving.  I had to go back and listen to the whole interview.

Before listening to the interview I was not familiar with Langella's work.  I found out that he starred in Robot & Frank, Frost/Nixon and other films.

Instead of paraphrasing his comments, I want to share his quotes talking about how he learned to be more tactful in sharing his views with others, and how transient everything that we once claimed as ours.  I just cannot help but be humbled by this 75-year-old man reminding us that we are all passing through our lives.

Gain cosmic perspective

I wanted to share this Chrome experiment with you.  It lets you see how small our solar system is compared to the Universe.  Earth barely shows up in the beginning of the sequence, and disappears really fast to a dot.

Click on the play button on upper left corner.
Source: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

I get to put my life in perspective.  All the trial and tribulation of life is really nothing but a momentary blip from cosmic perspective.  It's time to re-examine my priorities and pay attention to what is meaningful to my life.

I hope you get to spend that time tonight.