You are an observer, whatever else you are.  If you encourage the tendency to observe there is no limit to what you can survey from the fastness and comfort of your armchair. You need not be ‘up and doing’, caught up in everyday concerns. There is no His Masters Voice to tell you that this or that is for your attention.

There is a wealth of interest value in what goes on in our world.  You are a part of it.  Why close yourself off to it?

Observation and imagination feed of each other. It is liberating to let one’s mind play over situations that are not in your small world.  What know ye of yourself if only yourself ye know?  What might you take in of value to yourself if only you gave yourself time and space to reflect. You will be enlarging the shells of your personality.