Once the subject in the foreground has walked out of frame, the camera will refocus on your original distant subject.
These people could get a kick out of your day-to-day camera trail while your distant acquaintances on Facebook might be bored to death.
On an autumn walk through the countryside, you may get five bars on your phone while a distant onion dome rises above a stand of birches, a kerchiefed woman on the side of the road sells a kilo of pickles, other women scout for mushrooms in the woods, and in the fields there is a humming swish!, accompanied by the quick gray blur of a long, curving blade on a stick.
Crossing your eyes is a very natural technique that allows you to focus on something that is very near you, and as soon as you bring your eyes away from that object (in this case, your nose), your brain will automatically try to refocus your eyes on more distant objects, thereby uncrossing your eyes almost immediately.
To see a bear stretching in the sun on your commute, to have that distant world intrude through your car window, is a gift.
It should be fixed at a distant point on your investing horizon.
It's like having a Facebook wall with all your friends chiming in on your questionable decisions of the distant past that you can't erase.
While I can see the value of "printing" a document on your mobile browser to a distant printer, is this really the way to do it?
We live in a world of stunning technological advancement, but it remains physically impossible to wear your heart on your sleeve and be emotionally distant, dress like a slut and a librarian, try much too hard and not make any real effort.
Put a leash on your dog, start in a distant part of the house, and say "outside!
