Big Things, Little Things

A week before writing this, my family and I just got back from a month-long vacation.

Upon returning, I quickly noticed that different things started taking up space in my head.

Let's walk through this, visually.

Let's start with our head.

Notice, there's a limited amount of space in it.

During the regular course of our lives, we can fill it with big things and little things.

While on vacation, the little things sort of disappeared for me.

It was a wonderful feeling. It felt spacious. It felt like I could actually see all the contours of the big things and really look at them.

After getting home, the little things started to show up again.

Pretty quickly, the little things started to feel like big things.

But this isn't how it should be, right? There's not enough space!

I needed to right-size this.

We need to keep the big things big, and the little things little.

And once in a while, we need to let go of the little things.

So that we can focus on the big things.