I try and tell myself and others that "I don't care, I just don't care at all" but in my head, I can't NOT care about things that are around me, things that happen to those I care about, things that happen to those I do NOT "care" about..... I try and play the hardball route and be all straight faced, hard and so on, but somehow it never works that way in my head and in my heart. Seems the more I try and convince myself that I don't care, the more things around me effect me in ways I don't like to even think about.
NOW, having said this, I like to walk thru my days happy, not fake, but happy, I laugh a LOT, and I do mean a lot, it's what keeps me sane in the insane world I live in. I don't watch the news on a daily thing, (exception being keeping up with this happening to these people in this hurricane), and I don't pay a lot of attention to things going on around me that some think are news worthy, simply because each and every single time I turn on the news, there is something depressing on there, and if I can't do anything about it, I prefer not to set myself up to be depressed.
This is not to say I don't get involved, I DO, in things that are important to me and those I care about.... but as a whole, I tend to steer clear of as much depression as I can possibly steer away from, simply because I don't like being depressed. I have this thing in me that tells me if I am laughing and not depressed then all is right in my world. I don't put too much emphasis on money, no more than I need to just survive, rather I put emphasis on my family and my friends and the things that money cannot buy, so I don't live beyond my means so if something happens, I am not killing myself trying to pay what is necessary..... may sound funny to some, but it keeps me sane.
Basically I don't fret the small things and therefore the bigger things, as they happen, have more of my attention and less of my depression.
Personal enough for you, dammit? LOL