Zoom Out – A Series of Observations

When the Big Picture is a Lie

Life requires us to make a lot of decisions, sometimes with more information at our disposal, and sometimes with less. I want to talk about what happens when Zooming Out isn’t going to be helpful, and why it’s important we learn to distinguish when it’s time to do so, and when it’s not. I think…
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Zoom Out: Chapter 13 – When Life Gives You Lemons

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. At least that’s what all those home décor signs say at Home Goods. Is there any truth to that? Or is it possible that sometimes, something just simply sucks, and it would be way more satisfying to throw the lemon at someone instead? We could argue both cases,…
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Zoom Out: Chapter 12 – The Next Best Choice

The change that I have experienced over the last month has been monumental in every possible way. For a long time, I had begun to feel uncomfortable with where I was at in life. Unfulfilled and searching for meaning and direction. Recently, the universe decided that I would receive every ounce of change I had…
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Zoom Out: Chapter 11 – We the People…

“If you think you love freedom, but you don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.” -Unknown I have inadvertently taken the last two weeks off from writing not only because my personal life required all my mental energy to get through, but also because the world has been a…
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Zoom Out: Chapter 10 – Mama I’m a Big Girl Now (But I Really Don’t Want to Be)

I think everyone is painfully aware of the insurmountable precipice that is our 20’s. So much unknown, so much to do and see, so many people to meet and love, etc. Our dreams are so potent, and our realities can be so underwhelming or even stifling. Growing up is a painful and unforgiving experience. Careers…
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Zoom Out: Chapter 9 – Books are Closing, and Minds are Closing with Them

The world is changing in unimaginable ways, and one of the worst ways is that we are reading less, that children are reading less. What happens when the world stops reading? A creator by the name of Warpaint Journal, originally sourced on Instagram, puts it perfectly. “A generation of kids growing up without reading books…
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Zoom Out: Chapter 8 – When Too Much Becomes Too Much

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott It’s a great thing, to be ambitious and to want more for your life. In fact, our society thrives off the image of perfection and ambition. You are rewarded for having a full schedule and thus, a…
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Zoom Out: Chapter 7 – The Friends that Leave and the Grief that Stays

For this chapter I am going to recycle some older material from my blog. The topic being one that I contemplate far more often than I would like. Friendships can be very difficult, increasingly so as we enter adulthood, and our lives are either steadying out or continuing to increase pace. Those changes many a…
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Zoom Out: Chapter 6 – Hurry Up and Wait

Hurry up and wait…have you ever heard that before? I believe it’s typically used within the theater and film space, maybe even military, but it is a phrase that has been roaming around my mind for a while now. Life is such a paradox in that way, too often young adults like myself feel the…
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Zoom Out: Chapter 5 – Intuition vs Ego

Picture this, you are faced with a challenge. It requires you to make an important decision, but too many opinions have found their way to you, or more likely, you feel a dissonance within you. How do you make a decision when you are of two minds about everything? In a world where information is…
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