In this week discussion, Meghan and I discussed how it’s possible to not always live/be in the moment 100% of the time. As a society we tend to want to flaunt what we have, where we’ve been, how much we have, and the quality of our lives and possessions. It is so easy to get caught up in that lifestyle but it’s important to take a step back and really look at the bigger picture. If possessions is all that matters to you in life, so many other good things will pass you by without your acknowledgment. If we just live behind a camera or screen in order to convince others we live a perfect life, we aren’t seeing the real picture. Percy talks about how if you take a picture of the Grand Canyon, you get a different result than what you would see if you were standing right in front of it. Applying this to life, when we only focus on a sliver of something, we are not spending that same amount of time an effort to appreciate the whole thing.
