THEY’re Wasting Your Life

I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent many years closely following politics, and I suddenly came to a startling realization yesterday. It seems I’ve wasted a lot of time and effort following and analyzing events that contributed little to my current knowledge and understanding. In other words, I wasted my time on a hell of a lot of minutia that had little effect on the current political situation. Sometimes it was stuff that came and went, (like the Kavanaugh nomination debacle). Other times, it was waiting for a final resolution to a situation that just drug on for years and years, (like all the events on the way to trying to build THE WALL).

It’s stressful to be constantly waiting on the resolution of political situations, because we invest ourselves pro or con and win or lose. And no sooner does one event end than another takes its place. It’s similar to what I imagine a crazily avid baseball fan must go through, -except it never ends; it just goes on and on as long as we let it.

Some say we are deliberately being distracted by the Elite, so we don’t notice and deal with what they’re really doing to us.

Here’s my solution to this; (I’d like to hear yours’.):
1) Chill out. The individual baseball games are not as important as the pennant. You don’t have to watch and analyze every game.
2) Get a life. Baseball isn’t the only thing in life; it’s not even most important.
3) Learn what’s likely to have a major effect on the future, and focus on its major events only. Don’t get caught up in unimportant details, -no matter how emotionally satisfying they may be.

Following politics can easily become an obsession, because it’s interesting and it can feel good when your team wins, (Anyone tired of winning yet?). Ask yourself whether you are wasting your time in addition to staying informed about the important stuff. If so, stay informed, but also stop wasting your time.