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Different-People make Different-Choices about how to invest/spend their: time, attention, money, efforts, skills, talents,
capitol - - - of all kinds - - - in terms of their own personal considerations of:

 1. What is utterly impossible for anyone,
 2. What is utterly impossible for them in particular at this time in their lives,
 3. What is unlikely to bear sweet fruits in their given current situations,
 4. What is likely to bear sweater fruits in their given current situations,
 5. What they are BEST qualified to do HELPFULLY in the discretionary-time-available-to-them at this time in their lives,
 6. What they are NOT  qualified to do in the discretionary-time-available-to-them at this time in their lives,
 7. What they are NOW committed to be doing in their discretionary-time in the near future.
 8. What others are NOW asking them to do in the near future.
 9. What others are NOW demanding that they do.
10. What is popular and possible for them to do now.
11. What is NOT likely to be seen as acceptable within their extended families now.
12. What is traditionally expected of them to be doing.
13. What is TABOO for them to do within their extended families now.
14. What will be tolerated by the members of their extended families.
15. What will be grounds for shunning and/or excommunications of them - - - within their extended families.
16. What enduring Alienative-Conflicts they will not themselves be able to Mitigate in the near future.

People do not live in the hypothetic contexts which are often the focus of attention in academic settings.

People often live in far more complex contexts - - - - which are RARELY the focus of attention in academic settings.

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Effectively helping each other to Mitigate-our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts; can often be more complex than imagined at first!