I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.
I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical things when we open newspapers.
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.
I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.