Sure, most of us won't deny that it all looks very real, or maybe concrete is a better word, but the actual state of things is transitory. Oftentimes, it is difficult to avoid getting caught up in the games of life in our particular little puddle in the world and the illusion that we are mere victims in the drama. But that is a choice. It is truly a mind game. Once you become aware that you have allowed your own mind to create the role you play in the drama, you begin to write pink slips to the dogmatic tyrants who have been ruling your mental world, and send in new actors, and eventually, new scripts.
Some reactions are instinctual and used for survival.
Stability and order are needed for the ego to establish roles and domination, thus subordinating the wondrous effervescence of the creative spirit. Albeit safe and predictable, it is a very stifling existence, and many people find themselves frustrated and disenchanted with life as a result. Again, it is the mind that has become caught up in the manifest material world with all of its toys and political smokescreens. The individual has taken a back seat and is seen as superfluous to the whole. The individual indeed is the focus and the source of all that is.