The Scale of Life

Something I have noticed as we get older is how the scale of our life changes. Sometimes it broadens, and sometimes it shrinks. When you are a child, the world is merely what you see. Your little school, your little friends, your little family, your little neighborhood, etc. Through your teenage years it may broaden, but still be confined to the walls of your high school. Then, before you know it, you're out on your own. The scale at which you consider "life" broadens immensely, maybe globally. For the first time, something that may happen far away from you has some type of affect on you. You want to stretch your arms around the world in hopes of saving it. Then, your scope on life sharpens down as small as it may ever be. You may meet someone that narrows down your scope of life on that person, and not much more. Your own family may came as a result which sharpens your view on life to those people that you care about. And from this point on, it seems nothing else matters.

For all people, the scale at which we consider life is different. What affects one person may not affect another. Having a broad spectrum on life may or may not be bad, but it would be nice, if at the very least, we could be more aware of what's happening beyond our current scope on life. However, it may be our inherent nature to only focus on what we feel affects us.