The practice of mindfulness meditation is similar to a the shock absorbers in a car. If the shock absorbers are not good, you will see how difficult it will be when you drive. There is no place to run away from them. You cannot leave them here and go over there. They follow persistently and doggedly wherever you go, and they keep bothering you, day and night.
Most people experiment with three solutions.
Therefore, they think that by correcting the world, trying to solve society's ills, they can solve their problems. Only then can they live happily. So they get engrossed and, sometimes, even obsessed, in trying to straighten out society. Of course, the desire to improve society's ills, itself, is commendable. They see suffering and become compassionate and then act.