“You can’t see the forest for the trees.” It’s something I heard often from my professors.

I didn’t understand it the first several times, but it had something to do with “not seeing the big picture”.

I didn’t understand, because the big picture was there, but the details were far more interesting. The details contributed to the big picture in interesting ways, that got erased once you zoomed out.

Everything is important. Why write about the forest, when the trees have so much more to offer? Shouldn’t the reader be able to piece together the trees and reconstruct the forest?

Apparently not.