How to find the middle ground between blissful ignorance and obsessing over things out of our control

Given that I'm set, nearly or very nearly, at one of these extremes, I struggle in any way to relate to the blissfully ignorant. I can't imagine the ways they get irked when we start discussions or go on rants, put the world to rights and so on.

I can only refer back to a schema for childhood when playtime was rudely interrupted or eaten into by adults and their serious talk. 

It could be that they reserve the onus of importance on their jobs and hobbies. I've been in their position when talking to stock brokers and gamers. Though curious at first, anything deeper than funny anecdotes and I'm bored senseless. 

In some ways their behaviour is a lot healthier than mine. They are controlling what's in front of them. Besides writing these things for my own catharsis and those with enough patience to get through them, I don't do a lot. Leafleting, debates on university campuses and with friends. Promoting in whatever little way I can the party I've sized up to have the right ideas and integrity come election time.

Consequences play a fairly big role. For at the top of career or hobby, the blame for any failure will be worn by them alone. As with the consequences. Whereas if one or two of my more politically inclined peers holds any level of office, any gaffes could have a huge effect on groups of people. 

Of course in health care and law, there can be severe casualties. But mainly in one individual/one case. For the most part, others' can withstand any heartbreak from watching friends lose the annual golf tournament.

But the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. Imagine having the clout to halt 'hate crime' and redirect the police where the geniune crimes are. The power to bring back polytechnic schools and fund them with the subsidies otherwise going to useless degrees that lead to no jobs. The proverbial muscle to prioritise agriculture and its regeneration before building any new homes or taking in any more immigrants. Wow. Mouthwatering. But these opportunities to get to these positions come around only every few years. Because of this, let's make a compromise with the blissfully unaware types; we can indulge in their interests as a break from getting too bogged down in what we can't control. In exchange they should indulge us, come election cycles. 

As we get older, I think this will get easier. A flipside to the dropping metabolism and wrinkles. Like a wiser, older heavyweight boxer we don't move constantly, expending unnecessary energy, we move when it counts. Pick our punches. Remind yourself and others when they're getting too weighed down or bombarding others, to box clever. 

Just as those who are driven by their day to day jobs or purely hobby focused, we'll all get better at this with time.

#BoxClever