What's happing?

What's happening in the world?
Traveling can take you far away, but never does it can really led you out of the world.
While walking in a non-touristic small village in S. France, we saw an old lady reading a newspaper outside of her balcony. Though the scenery remain unlikely, we know that we are not too far from modern world. I stopped, gazed the whole picture for a long time. The surrounding was almost like silent movie. It seems the only moving things was the breeze. For a moment, I felt time still and outside chaotic world fade away. How to live in the world, but not to cling to it? I ponder and ponder............