Blocking the News
What if you decided to get up today and block the news. News is not happy stuff; I look at it when I wake-up in the a.m., when I wake in the middle of the night (though I try not to), and again throughout the day and evening. Crazy, eh? Sliding laterally for a moment – and I'll come back to the news shortly – take a look at this photo 👇 …it was taken during autumn and currently this is summer, but…
…this is typical of the view that I wake up to every morning. Notwithstanding that I live a hundred meters or so behind this viewpoint and more elevated – and notwithstanding the slight magenta-cast in the photo – this is typically my view: winter, summer, spring, and fall. It’s a community of 500 souls or so and the nearest town of 100k people is almost 200km away. Then, the nearest city with 1 million+ people is across an ocean – I live on an island – an almost 2000km away by automobile drive.
Back to the news: what, really, is the point? Conflict, strife, raging forest fires, political unrest. It’s endless. It’s exactly what keeps us interested and “entertained.” It draws us in. It actually feels like the events of the day are in our back yard. And, for a lot of people in this world, it probably is. But for many of us, such isn’t the case (although last summer we were impacted by forest fires).
So, if you’re waking up and the news got you down, then tune out for a day or a week or more and tune in to your small corner of the world and enjoy the view. Give your mental state a rest—if the news of the world is coming to your doorstep then you’ll know soon enough. Chill, people.
Enjoy your day 📷
W