The problem with being a centrist if you are sheep, is that you essentially have no personal freedom. You MUST move with the flock or be trampled. If you travel at the periphery of the flock, you have more freedom but are at a much greater risk of falling prey to predators. It’s also true that no one can lead from the center. You must be at the periphery and in the vanguard to lead. In this troublesome world the desire to exist safely is understandable, but often derided as cowardly. As divine humans sent here to solve the problem of evil, is traveling at the center of the flock and letting others lead, so that one has increased safety from predators, a shirking of duty?

This indeed is the case. You were created to solve the problem of evil. To the extent you do not realize this, you live in ignorance and are simply marking time to no good purpose regardless of what else you might be doing with yourself. If you wish to learn and grow and apply yourselves to your primary purpose, you must either lead or at least be a member of the vanguard moving forward through a leadership decision calling upon humans to break from the traditions of the past that have become stultifying, and break free in a new direction that will end up raising everyone to a new plateau. This is what you were created to do, after all, to not be prisoners nor prison wardens, but advocates for the truth of the divine to spread love everywhere you go and seek to right the wrongs impeding the flow of love. If you are not doing this in your life, you indeed are falling short and will be getting behind, actually. If you are not moving forward but standing still in a relative sense, you will be falling behind those who see the light and are working to champion its cause.