The Telescope And The Microscope

When we zoom out, and look at it all from a big enough distance in time and space, everything looks small. Tiny. Miniscule.

Our own small lives, from a distance, don’t look any different from those of the most influential people and events on the planet, either now, or through the whole of history. It all looks insignificant.

But if we zoom in close enough everything, absolutely everything, matters. It all impacts something. There are no exceptions.

We need both those perspectives. One to keep us humble and liberate us. And the other to motivate us to take responsibility, and to find meaning in our lives.

It’s always useful to have both The Telescope And The Microscope to hand. Hard, sometimes, to know which one we should be looking through right now though.

And perhaps, sometimes, those of us who are constantly trying to “make sense of it all” need to put them both down.

Sometimes this is enough.