ZOOM OUT...NOT IN

Good morning my amazing blue bloods. We are blessed with the weekend again, time to sit back, relax and evaluate our week, hope for the coming one, spend time with friends and family…. Whatever you choose, just spend it grateful for seeing the weekend.

I was going through the pictures on my phone sometime during the week and remembered when a friend of mine taught me a shortcut on how to zoom out on pictures on that phone, when I had just acquired it, almost two years ago. I remember that when he showed me, I said “Oh!” letting this new technique register in my head and since then I have always used it.

Another time, while reminiscing after a phone call to a friend who had just suffered a loss, I started thinking about what it was I was so sad or angry about, and I couldn't place it. It was as if whatever my situation, it was nothing compared to hers and you know what, she still told me, “It is well.”  At first, I thought she was still in denial but a closer look at the situation, and I remembered; don’t zoom in on your problems... Zoom Out!!! I also realised how thin I looked in a picture when I zoomed out but when I zoomed in, it felt like I was trying to accommodate a life-size doll into a small Barbie box.

Many times we zoom in on our challenges, staring them in the face and getting cowered by them, not acting on them or saying “Right back atchya” and telling them who the boss is. Little wonder why they take so much space in our minds, looking so insurmountable, and that’s because we haven't learnt to stop pressing the zoom in button. In no time, we are sad, angry, and unable to enjoy the good that’s left; a significant amount of good I might add.

On the other hand, when we zoom out, we realise how little those problems are afterall. Thus, seeing ways around them, above them and even through them which gets us wondering why we were even bothered in the first place, or get us saying a slang I know, “Smallz".

Remember this; your life is defined by your perspective.

Life’s too short my fellow aristocrats to miss out on the smell of the roses. Let’s take that deep breath in and just enjoy the crisp air.

Remember to have fun today, live it up.

Cheers…xoxo