Understanding the Universe in all of its infinite reaches and powers is like the scene in "The Great Outdoors" when John Candy eats that gigantic steak, gristle and all. Daunting with a dash of absurdity tossed in for good measure. Give me a salad!

I've spent years studying, analyzing and agonizing; reaching out to grasp some concept of what we are, and what we were meant to do as a human race. There are endless books, theories and explanations that support many different findings. The simplest example of apposing views is Christianity and The Big Bang Theory.

As you know one says we were created by an all powerful, loving, and nurturing creator while the other says we crawled out of primordial ooze after an explosion of universal gases and millions of years of terrestrial development.

From aliens, to Atlantis, to a far flung distant galaxy that escaped certain destruction and resettled spaceship Earth, there is an endless imagination to the human race that always, in every theory, supports one common piece of ground.

No matter what you believe the undeniable fact is that every final answer started with a question. "Where did we come from?"

Why do we as a human race need to answer to this question?

Columbus had the vision of finding the passage to China by sailing west. Lewis and Clark had the vision of finding the passage way to the west coast. Kennedy had the vision for the United States to put the first man on the moon. What were all of these people doing?

Searching for answers.

When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his powerful "I have a Dream" speech he had a clear and enlightened passion for the future. He wanted for all people the same freedoms. To live, worship, succeed and transform their lives and the world. He was searching for equality.

From the beginning of time at our core as human beings we have had an uncontrollable urge to search. In the ever expanding universe scientists, archeologists and theologians continue to decipher seemingly cryptic knowledge of our past and our present, physical and spiritual DNA, to compound this fact of mankind.

Is the knowing that we are all "searching" important? Is it a key for all people to radically put change into their lives? Does this knowledge allow seeming ordinary people like you and me to devour the salad, gigantic steak, all the trimmings and dessert?

And how does this insatiable searching present itself in common everyday life?

Take the thousands of unwed teenage mothers giving birth every year here in America as a glaring rudimentary example. Place our discovered fact that all people are searching to this rapidly growing issue…and then devise an answer. What are those girls searching for? A way out of a terrific, loving, nurturing, every expanding, beautiful home life? A world where their hopes, dreams and aspirations are vaulted to visualization and prompted to success?

Sadly is just the opposite in most cases. Emotionally, physically, spiritually or mentally they have been abused. One of these is generally the culprit and more specifically and routinely inflicted by family members which in turn causes misguided searching.

A mother who says "How stupid could you be?" or the father who never hugs, kisses and treats his daughter like the princess she longs to be, more devastating could be the death of her parents and the lack of those figures in the early developmental stages, all leading to feelings of separation, anger, rejection, a thousand other emotions that children don't have the first clue about dealing with.

Remember a time as an adult when you were shaken to your core. You had an argument with your boss, your spouse, some person at the grocery store. Any situation where it has led to prolonged discomfort in your life. You hated seeing your boss everyday, or you wouldn't speak to your spouse. Eventually you have to do one of two things. Let enough time pass that you and your combatant just "let it slid," or step up and make amends.

Now imagine you're twelve again and you don't have either your fortitudes as an adult or any kind of support system. This kind of suffering compounds into habits developed to protect that inner part that was so horribly abused. And the searching for something to ease that pain begins.

It doesn't even have to be that harsh. Sitting on the couch after work ignoring our spouse because we've lost interest in our own hopes, dreams and aspirations is a simple one. It's easier to shut off the world and ones we love than to face the fact we have no idea what to search for any more.

When mediocrity becomes the only thing we see and believe life becomes empty and meaningless.

The knowledge that we are all searching is what separates those who are successful in life and those who time and time again fail to be successful. The most influential people in the world have utilized it since the beginning of time and not once did they ever ask for steak sauce.