McCoy yes I understand what u r saying.. I was also including spiritual activity. Sometimes we seek out spiritually satisfying people or environments and the energy exerted does not always have a return. We may meet others that have there own set of challenges or spend a lot of money getting places and then have difficulty paying that money back.
However even more difficult is the fact that we may spend time with people who look for their happiness in only worldly activities. These type of people can leave us very restless and can take us out of our spiritual peace and harmony if we spend too much time with them. Being in tune with the spiritual vibrations of those friends at a physical distance like yourself is dependent upon being in tune with our inner center.
i believe it is important for me and perhaps others to recognize how much we are tied to material perceptions and environments and how the harmony of such locals often determines spiritual experience. There is, for most of us still a strong connection between material and spiritual understanding and experience. One of the next leaps we must take is to be able to connect with higher realms without the intermediary of physical variety.
True, we should rather be selective and take up only activities which are necessary to health or survival (besides spiritual practices).
And that's enough to keep ourselves busy for hours a day...
Bottom line, in life there is no time to do everything, nor even a tenth of what we might wish to do.