Ever use a pair of binoculars? Or perhaps a microscope? Or a magnifying glass? They provide wonderful tools for examining things up close.

Maybe you are watching a football game from the stands. The binoculars enable you to see that one intricate expression that you couldn’t see from afar.

Maybe you are bird watching from your window. Those binoculars allow you see a momma bird feeding her young.

These up close and personal moments can give us great perspective on unique interactions. That said, if you spend your entire life using binoculars to observe moments within the day, you will also miss out on the entirety of life all around you – and other moments that matter. The moment you focus singularly on the snapshot, that’s also when you exclude the “big picture.”

In a sense we all do this eve…