Since I reached the age of 14 I have tried to avoid watching the news. I don't know if it has always been my luck to tune into the T.V at the wrong time, but I always seem to watch depressing news. To me, depressing news is: rising gas prices, war, economy, robbery's, murder, and most every thing else on the news. Once in a while I'll catch a good piece like, so and so is celebrating their 100th birthday.
For me, ignoring the news is a way for me to tune out the rest of the world. I don't like being bogged down with everyone else's woes. I am very easily upset by other people's emotions, and if I watch that someone lost their child in this pointless war, then I am depressed for the rest of the day. I am affected very easily. Because I'm affected easily by others emotions I was on anti-depressant drugs to help with handling the news and teenage issues for a few years.
There are some things from the news I can't ignore though. Like food prices or gas prices. Paying for gas is my hardest out of the two. Living on $216 a month makes buying this one necessity very difficult. Well, a necessity if you actually want to go somewhere. I'm dealing with the food prices, but that does where on me.
The biggest thing I avoid from the news is the death and hardships that people are going through. I know I am not the only person that is affected by listening to such broadcastings and probably not the only person who chooses to stay ignorant about what is going on. I have come across more than one person who thinks I'm an idiot for not watching the news, but I this is how I feel about it; watch the news, know whats going on, and be on anti-depressants, or not watch the news, stay ignorant, and not take anti-depressants. Hum, such a hard decision.
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I'm not so sure (age 62) that I'd consider celebrating another 38 birthdays good news....
Anyway, you've done a lot with a topic that obviously could not possibly be up your alley. Turning a topic on its head and explaining its impossibility for the particular writer, as you have done, is an honorable and classic way to proceed--and you do catch enough of current events to set yourself in context, to show yourself in the world.
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