planets and stars

So his dad bought him a glow in the dark planet set and hung them from the ceiling.  What touched me was that he also adhered tiny glow in the dark star stickers to the ceiling next to the planets.  After seeing them over and over again many times, I just realized that his dad actually put the star stickers on with exact placements of where the stars are at night; I located the little dipper and the big dipper, orion, etc.  Sometimes you just don't see what is in front of you until you take a breather.  Same thing happened the other week when ucci and I went to go eat brick oven pizza on a school night.  We walked to a nearby park afterwards and it was so hot and humid I wanted to leave.  Ucci insisted we stay and look for turtles and fish but it was obvious to me there were none.  I tried to get him to go but he refused.  Finally once I relaxed and sat down, I started noticing things.  I actually noticed tons of small fish that were invisible to the eye, and then we found three crawfish too.  It was fun pointing them out to ucci and he appreciated the experience.  Why is it so hard to enjoy the moment and relax?