It is usually of the clamorous and disastrous variety. So it is is a huge stressor, and who needs the stress? Plus, one can’t do much about whatever it is anyway.
So why pay any attention to it at all? Just ignore it, for one’s mental health.
In Stoicism, they tell you to concentrate on what is under your control, but ignore everything else — that would include the news, in my opinion
You see these people who never miss a single headline, and it is just making them crazier, although they may not realize it.
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
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