Too Cautious?

The visor successfully deflected the glare, but at what expense? We protect ourselves from one danger and blind ourselves to the next. Smothered in an overprotective blanket of cautions and precautions, we lose some of the agility that walking through the minefield demanded. We give ourselves an exhaustive list of all the things at which we should not look, and our attention is filled, but not as we had intended. Avoiding one thing is not necessarily embracing another. What fills the void?