Changed Geography

I've oft been cautioned about getting too involved in other people's drama; it being just a type of an addiction towards distraction.

   It can appear as such where getting tangled-up with external details affecting other people were merely antics of departure from tending my own frustrated desires and wishes; there’s adequate evidence that points in that direction anyway.
   Too much of anything strikes me as more dependable touch stone; balance appears to be a better choice than, say, indiscriminate sampling.  Yet there is also adequate life lessons suggesting avoidance can keep you safe; wherever that may be.

  Yet, if we are not a part of the whole, where being involved is requisite to feel as if we belong, then by definition skimming by superficially  makes us more separate; isn’t that the premise of mistaking selfish habits over mindfully coming to our senses?
  Perhaps I'm blabbering, but it is becoming clearer to me that by witness and by participation do we find which methods serve to help us 'feel better'. Sure, we can talk about the history of how we got to where we are; even conjecture on techniques for improved performance. But isn’t our desire to become more sensitive to what is true? To distill our way out of those habitual ways of evaluating ours, along with others, 'living conditions' as measure of value? How do you feel right now? Then, respond accordingly.
  It’s a great tickle to abandon the heretical standards of choosing by the limits of guilt, blame, or even fear of punishment.  Wouldn't any alternative be superior to those types of concerns? Perhaps more refined and robust experiences of living in wonder might be a better substitute?  I sure would think so, rather than the alternative function of decisions based on penalties implied as correct behavior?
   Consequence to a fresh new approach can be like a promise. And promises too can become an addictive distraction. An "only if…" orientation might somehow deliver an orgasmic need for rightness. If the desired end state is not achieved, then departure from modifying a habitual behavior can be justified; conclusion that explain failure to deliver on expectations; I didn’t get what I wanted. Ah, reward...how the vocabulary of captured thinking can color predictions? 

   We walk our dirt paths to feel the cool earth on our soles, as it were.  Yes, the occasional rock, or exposed root along the way urges caution whenever we trip over them. But never, in all my years of exploring the unknown ways, did the thought of giving up the walk strike me as a solution to those mishaps; I just figured out I best be more care full.

   Have a day of exploring and delightful discovery. And how about not anything more exotic than perceiving with loving eyes....wow, look at the changed geography.