You're probably familiar with the idea in eastern philosophy of remaining in the present? It's a fairly well-known concept. The idea that the past is gone and you can't do anything about it, and the future is unwritten so it's not worth worrying about. Thus, you need to live in the present.

But living in the present also means living within your surroundings. You aren't present in other areas of the world. You can't be present there. You can be aware, but not present.

With so many of the problems in the world, we are helpless from our present locations. As horrible as they are, and the global implications that they may have, they may not actually have a significantly profound effect on our day-to-day lives. And even if they do, what can you realistically do about them? Is it worth devoting a lot of your thoughts to them? Probably not.

I guess the whole point is to remain present in your life, in the arena of events that directly affect you, and that you can directly affect in return in some way.

It's okay to be aware of what's going on in the world, but that doesn't mean that we should put our consciousness into that location. It's okay to not have those events overshadow your life as it is today, it's okay to go about your life in your direct surroundings. If we can't contribute something helpful directly to those problems, then it can actually be unhealthy to focus on them.