Is anything worth the energy and emotion?

I care about those things that are “more important” to me, and I work for those things that are “more important” to me, and I’m happy for everyone else to care about whatever they care about.

Why indeed.

If our attention should be only limited to the one supreme thing that is most important, and never a thought given to anything else, then it’s doubtful that we would have survived more than a generation or so of such thought.

But at least we’d have bacon, I guess. Since bacon is, after all, the most important thing in the world.

We are here because our minds and brains are so multifaceted that we multitask multiple work loads with the greatest of ease.
Claims that there are more important things to consider rather than consider that which is important to you seem to arise when the claimant really doesn’t care about your concerns.
If you wish your considerations to be noticed you must ignore the naysayers are continue to harken others to your cause.

where’s the bacon?!?!?

disclosure: a minor proselytism at the end

Indeed there is nothing fixed or “safe” to alight upon. This is your truth. It may not be true for everyone, but this is okay. There’s room for different manifestations.

What is consistent and unchanging is that there is a perceiver of this truth. There is an expended or conserver of energy in relation to these issues. You can confirm this for yourself.

In my opinion, it is worthwhile for someone who is beset with the enormity of this puzzle to understand who the perceiver is. It is the fixed point, and an earnest inquiry will yield satisfactory answers.

It may be helpful to start with an understanding that all of the issues you cite will take care of themselves with or without your participation. You do not have to worry that you will miss something critical either for yourself or for the issue if you step out of the circle for a period of time. Conversely, you will be better enabled to “be the change you seek” after coming to know the you who is the perceiver.

Okay, now comes the proselytizing. This is less about the person or adherence to a religion than it is learning a method of inquiry from someone more articulate and versed than me. If my response grabs you, I suggest searching Mooji on YouTube and scrolling until you find a title that interests you. They all lead to the same place, which is inquiring about you the perceiver. Personally speaking, it has been the key to understanding that puzzle.

What we treasure (value) the most is worth our energy and emotion. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s human nature to waste our energy and emotion on things that disturb us, whether we feel wronged and choose to go after the person or thing that has wronged us. Conversely, sometimes we avoid something that is disturbing us even though the thing disturbing us is valuable. So we waste our time and energy avoiding a valuable disturbance.

Examples:

(1) I value my home. I should be spending my energy and emotion on taking care of it. But, I have a neighbor and a condo association that are disturbing me. So, instead of taking care of something I value, I waste my energy on the disturbance.

(2) I had a thesis paper I needed to do in order to earn my degree. The stress of doing the paper, which I valued, caused me to avoid it. The stress of the paper was a disturbance I wanted to avoid. So, instead of facing the disturbance, I wasted my energy and emotion on non-important distractions.

My point: nothing that we do not value is worth our energy or emotion, especially if it distracts us from the people and things we do value.

The answer to this question is easy, but then again, maybe not. Anyone here who works for a living has answered the question “yes”. Now as to who’s happy with the answer to “is the job worth it?” mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

@syz says it well. We can foment change but usually it’s better to focus on a few issues that are important to you.

For me, politics and religion are interesting, but not always worth arguing over here with a majority of people who feel differently than I do. As a theist, I’m not going to stress about National Prayer Day being offensive to non-theists. I didn’t ask for a National Prayer Day, nor do I need it to communicate with my Deity.

My point that was purposely misconstrued in the other thread, is that there are many holidays on the calendar that do not appeal to everyone. Do all Jews celebrate Christmas or all theists celebrate Halloween, of course not.