Focus on the Big Things or Small?

 Nowadays I love taking hyperlapse moments. Usually its the sunset or sunrise, the skies with the cotton candy clouds or even rain and perhaps just the process of me finishing up my paintings. 

It is so easy to forget that there are bigger things, more important things happening all around us. Most of them are beautiful things like how we take for granted the blue skies. All we can see is blue sky with clouds but if we just focus on the sky, at that exact same spot for a period of time, we can see magnificent movement of the clouds. During sunset, you can sometime see the movement of the earth even. 

Things have been somewhat normal around the house. Things happening within us seems so small if we compared to the things out there. Nowadays, I tend to focus on things i can change. Those I can clearly make a different to. Small things. Like cleaning a spot in the kitchen. Vacuuming a corner of the house. These are distractions for my mind. 

There are also things, important things in play. Like the fact that my dad was tested positive for covid yesterday and mom could be positive too. Like the issues relating to Eddy's work has not been resolved to this day and it could cloud over both of us whenever we talked about it. Like the kids interview with the judge is coming up. It is a lot going on. But they are small, compared to things happening outside. 

I read a short story long time ago about focusing and the big things so that the small things would fall into places. The teacher ask the students to fill a jar with big pebbles, small pebbles and sands. The jar can be filled with all 3 objects if we first insert the big pebbles into the jar, followed by small pebbles and lastly the sand since sand is the smallest in size. Just like life. Focus on the big things first. 

With that in mind, I think, I should just take a breath, focus on keeping my mind calm by focusing on the big things so that my mind could sort out the small things, in due time