The Big Picture

As I sit here eating subway I think back to an idea I had just before going to sleep one night earlier this week, and with the advice of DC I wrote it down, I'd like to title this idea "The Big Picture" and not this kind of big picture but an even bigger picture then that, one not measurable in the third dimension or any dimension for that matter, for the picture is life.

So as I was laying there in a half conscious state pondering the whys of my existence (The more things I figure out why I do the better I feel) I had a sudden epiphany, I realized just then there that I was only focused on now, this day, this week, this phase, this season I was focused on the now. You may be saying so what, but I say that the now should be secondary to the big picture. Everyday I see people making sacrifices from the big picture to improve the now,  sacrifices such as not enough mileage for their speed, not doing the little things to keep away from injury, slacking off in school and such and sometimes not even doing a cool down! But I ask, what's the point? Life is like a painting and you're the artist, making sacrifices for the now is using all the best quality paint for painting in the sky on a painting where the sky isn't the main focus , the part of the painting that isn't supposed to draw focus but is just there to fill up the big picture, to compliment the main aspect of the painting. As you paint your painting, the more good quality paint you waste on the sky or the grass or everything else that matters less then the focal point of the painting the less you will have for the main aspect of it and the weaker the main aspect will be. Now I realize that every moment of your life, every stroke of your brush leading up to the main part of your big picture is more important then the last and without it the big picture or focal point wouldn't be possible, sometimes even making a mistake in one stroke of your brush can create better strokes later on, however making sacrifices from your focal point to make that part of the sky look better without learning from the mistakes you made isn't worth it in the big picture.

Anyway I guess what I'm trying to get at is that there is so much more to life then what is just happening right now and I figure that people need to start making decisions for the future, could be their future or the future of others, instead of making decisions to improve the now. I guess this applies to a lot more then just running but we need to realize that one day when we're older then we are now, we're going to step back and take a look at the big picture and hope that you can say that each stroke you made of your brush was something you won't regret and didn't take away from the focal point of your big picture

Well until next time

-A.P