Reading the News Is Giving Me an Existential Crisis
With news like this coming out every single day, it feels like nothing I do matters, and I just end up feeling listless.
Still, I guess I'll have to go to work tomorrow.
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Agreed... turning off all news notifications is the best thing I've done this year.
I feel the same way. These days I’m trying to get up in the morning without looking at my phone, but that’s not going well either haha.
Try switching to checking the news only once a day, at a set time. If you keep looking at it morning and night, your brain stays in a constant state of alert and you can't get anything done. I limited myself to 15 minutes at lunch, and at least I can breathe now. It turns out I wasn't feeling powerless because the world wasn't turning—it was because I was taking in too much information, too often.
A while back, I spent a few months the same way, and in the end, what kept me going was just the everyday routine—eating, going to work, meeting people. There was no grand conclusion; simply doing what I had to do today was the best. Going to work tomorrow means you're doing just fine.
Well, that's a bit... Not watching the news doesn't make the world any better, and living in ignorance isn't necessarily the answer. I think being apathetic and choosing ignorance are different issues. Wouldn't it be better to just pick one area you're interested in and dig deep into that instead?
You have a point, but blaming only the news is a bit much. A lot of the time, lethargy comes less from the news and more from not sleeping and eating poorly. After I fixed that, I got less swayed even when I watched the news lol