stop trying to wrestle with the big picture, son

Bobby Singer told Dean Winchester once, “Stop trying to wrestle with the big picture, son, you’re gonna hurt your head.”

I needed that advice pretty bad when I heard it. I don’t care that it came from a television show. Actually, some of the best advice I get comes from fiction in one form or another.

The big picture messes with my head a lot.

There’s a time for it. There’s a time to think about the big picture and philosophize about this and that, and consider the possibilities of what purposes drive the universe and what implications lie in those possibilities.

There’s a time for that and whatever else - it’s just that there’s usually something right in front of me that needs doing and if I’m busy putting on my singlet and trying to pin down some impossible-to-pin big-picture concept, I’m not going to get that thing done.

There’s a time to think about the big picture.

There’s a time to get crap done.

I’m not saying I should never wrestle with the big stuff, I’m just saying it’s usually get-crap-done time.