A beautiful lake made me look at a mushroom

Yesterday, I got the chance to marvel at the majestic sight of Lake Pandin. 

The balsa or bamboo rafts afloat in the lake’s pristine waters, the trees providing the perfect contrast for the horizon, and the lake itself—everything just completes the canvas for this vast, marvelous view. I gazed in awe. 

But somehow, it felt weird that I was drawn to a tiny mushroom I saw over a dead tree trunk a feet away from the lake. Who goes into a beautiful place just to look at a mushroom, anyways?

Then that’s where it hit me. 

I can take a step back. No, not a step back to look at the bigger picture. A step back to zoom in.

I can let go of the vastness of it all. I don’t have to take it all in. Sometimes, all it takes is to zoom in on the tiny details that allow you to survive. The tiniest details that rest inside an entirely grander picture. 

What a comfort it brings to know that somewhere in the midst of a great, overwhelming scene, there rests a tiny mushroom that allows a whole ecosystem to thrive.

Try it. 

Visit the most beautiful place on earth just to look at a mushroom. 

Or a rock. 

Or the ants. 

And see how it all comes together, eventually, for your good.