Well... this is pretty-much where I've come to. I don't watch the news on TV. I don't read the newspaper. There's nothing I can do about any of it. And hearing about all of it just makes me anxious. I also don't spend a lot of time looking things up on the internet. I don't have any friends or even acquaintances really, by choice. And I'm no longer on our homeowners' association board. (I was for a time a few years back.) I basically live in my own boring little world. I also no longer try to do much of anything in terms of home repairs. There's not a lot to be done anyway. And as I've aged I feel like I've lost much of the ability I used to have to successfully complete do-it-yourself projects around home.

Of course I'm aging & that makes a difference. I don't think I would ever recommend the way I live to a younger person. But I do think one has to temper one's desire to know everything & do everything oneself. One simply can't know everything & do everything oneself. And trying to do so can become little short of a compulsion in my opinion. I think, as the Buddha might perhaps have observed, one has to find a middle way. At least those are my thoughts with regard to your post.