Relating personal experience to larger scales

Some thoughts on noticing dynamics or issues - Trigger points or Beauty - in your own life experience to the scales of society at large. What perspective does it give you to just notice? Tying the microcosm of your experience (which feels macro) to the macro scale (which is often dismissed aka becomes micro in our perception). And how does this open you to noticing things that come up in gentle ways (before they start really asking for attention).