Silverstein's Message on "The Missing Piece Meets the Big O" Video

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In the video "The Missing Piece Meets the Big O" Silverstein explains that while people spend a great deal of their time and energy looking for a companion or requirements that would make their life complete, the truth is that there can be no companion or requirement to fulfil human life, rather one has to fulfil himself or herself. Silverstein goes a great deal in developing this thesis. She uses an animal-like creature, wedge-shaped that is lonely that is lonely hoping to find a big circle that it can fit itself with so that it can roll and reach somewhere. This is the way humans think that they are incomplete and needs to find someone or something in life to fit their life and go far together in life. However, whenever it came across a circle with the missing piece, it could not fit; too fat, too short, not the right shape and could not roll. In one occasion, it came across one with a missing piece similar to itself, and it was happy that they could fit into one another and roll to somewhere. However, the missing piece began to grow and made the circle imbalanced and unable to roll anymore. In a relationship, one partner grows, and the other one remains static, and they can't get along anymore; one has to quit. The missing piece decides to quit and remain lonely until a complete circle came by and introduces itself by th...