"The end is built into the beginning..."

I am finishing up watching the film Synecdoche, New York, it shows how the life of a director becomes caught up, enmeshed, and a part of the play he is directing. The line between 'reality' and 'play' become obviously blurred. I think it is the same way when we encounter a text (in the broadest sense: a play, novel, song, movie, person, etc). We see a part of ourselves in the text and thus our being is a microcosm of the text (the poetic device synecdoche come to mind here [ironically]) and at the same time a part of the text and at the same time apart from the text. This allows us a unique view on a text and on ourselves.

One of the most intriguing quotations is: "The end is built into the beginning" We see buildings built that are made to come down quickly. And I wonder if life is the same way. We are born and all we know is trust; we cannot do anything for ourself. And when we die it is the same way, because all the way to death we can only do one thing: trust. Trust we will take another breath. Trust that our words will be heard. Trust that for some cosmic reason we don't fall over dead. It is so built into us that we scarcely notice its presence. Since we never know when the end will be every moment is filled with trust, every moment is always a beginning.

Dustin