Confusing The Issues?

Lately I've spent much thought in the more philosophic considerations to topics that seem more relevant to the modern concerns of political change and the incremental erosion of both freedom and economic value. I've also spent some considerable time studying on abstract matters that appear to have no relevance to the immediate, prevalent specifics of societal affairs. My mind tends to speedily wander from what everyone else seems to be fussing about, as I not only analyze the foundations of the sources for the turmoil and controversy waging about our busy lives, I also analyze my own observations and conclusions to the deeper meaning driving everyday events. I'm constantly probing various perspectives and possible explanations to the colorful landscape of ideas and actions in the full array of human experience, from the darkest depths of depravity, to the highest joys of virtue. The human species is interesting and can choose the nature of its livelihood, it must either live in good, or extinguish itself in evil.

Alas, what is the matter with me? Why cannot I lighten up? Why is everything so heavy, meaningful, serious, and large scale self-determinism? I keep reminding myself that everything matters because it is real. I take into account so many possibilities and meandering abstracts so as to overlook the more obvious and immediate concerns. In my constant philosophic search for metaphysical truth, am I getting closer to understanding the chaotic patterns of disrupted harmony, or moving further away from finding and clearly expressing both practical and spiritual solutions?

I would think that stimulating my deeper philosophic contemplations as helpful to the enlightenment of a path to prosperity and virtue, or are the distractions along the way too big of a price to pay that it would render enduring peace and happiness ultimately unattainable? Am I taking my thoughts too far from the immediate answers so as to not allow the long term answers come to light? Am I simply just confusing the issues by thinking too much?

I'll have to give it more thought.