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%AVOID SENSITIZATION INDIFFERENCE DEFENSIVENESS GOD 070805
%NARROW DISTRACTION DISTRESS DEPRESSION INEFFECTIVE 070805
%INCOMPETENT SCATTERBRAINED HOPELESS NONSENSE BLIND 070805

During recorded history most people have been aware of far
more  humans in need than they can possibly relate  to  or
help in  any  meaningful  way.    To  live significant and
meaningful lives people have to focus their attention upon
a very  small fraction of all possible foci.   It is not a
simple  thing  to  focus  attention  meaningfully  without
falling into some trap; e.g. becoming tragically:

 1.  Desensitized to poverty/suffering.
 2.  Indifferent to poverty/suffering.
 3.  Defensive at others' expense.
 4.  Simplistically-Narrow in what one focuses upon.
 5.  Distracted, distressed and depressed.
 6.  Incompetent and/or Ineffective.
 7.  Scatterbrained and/or hopeless.

Creative  people  who  are effective  in  meaningful  ways
manage their attentions and lives in ways which avoid most
of the above traps;  not always  in the same way according
to any prescriptions and/or proscriptions.

      Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom.

                         (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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