Zoom out a bit bro!

Garda Rizkyamien
2 min readMay 16, 2021

“Dude, you're just seeing the pictures too close! Try zooming out a bit.”

One of the words from my beloved friends that suddenly just came out every time I feel like I'm stuck in a cycle of life. You know those moments where all you wanna do was just commenting about how life is treating you, where you just wanna scream out all those bad words because you're in a small mess.

We all have those moments where things just aren’t meant to be, things that don’t match our expectations, when life hits reality, and all those negative possibilities we all hear in our heads. It’s like when you order up a t-shirt online with the size of XL, in a match of your body measurements, but by the time you put it on, it doesn’t fit you.

Yeah. Those moments.

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In that moment of time, one of my friends gave me this reference about zooming out a bit, seeing the bigger picture, understanding what you have indeed, and not thinking about the future possibilities on what would happen.

What I learned about that, is by zooming out from those detailed pictures in life, we get tons of uninformed information and a wide point of view about what's going on. We learn to accept other chances and positions that we have already gained.

Sometimes zooming out a bit, really helps to receive that good feeling of what life has given us, and realizing that the world is not moving only for yourself, it’s actually moving for all the people around.

I maybe am sometimes bullshitting myself around like this and also I'm not that type of guy who is true to his words but these are just the things that kept me sane and I want to share it with you, especially when you have awesome friends around you.

Look, there are so many things in life that we receive fairly and unbelievably free, and can’t we imagine how grateful it is to achieve the things that we acquired by taking those actions back then that we have chosen proudly? I mean not everyone has taken action for those choices, in fact, not everyone has the opportunity to have a choice.

So, if your feeling like your not living, zoom out a bit.

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