Just heard an interview with Eric Wilson, author of Everyone Loves A Train Wreck, Why We Can’t Look Away. He confirms that we get depressed and desensitized from so much negative news.
That we go numb along the way is to be expected. Even the bravest among us, who give their lives to care for others, go numb with fatigue, when the heart can take in no more, when we need time to digest all we meet. Overloaded and overwhelmed, we start to pull back from the world, so we can internalize what the world keeps giving us. Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to return: to open our hearts once they’ve closed, to open our souls once they’ve shied away, to soften our minds once they’ve been hardened by the storms of our day.
―Mark Nepo, “Hearing the Cries of the World” (Read Nepo’s full essay here.)
Live & Learn
Amen..
LikeLike
Make that Amen again.
LikeLike
Wouldn’t that be a dream?!
LikeLike
It would. Just one day.
LikeLike
Of course, kittens.
LikeLike
And puppies. And babies. And ice cream.
LikeLike
are you a news half full or half empty kind of person? )
LikeLike
Empty…
LikeLike
My first thought was “that would never sell”. Then I realized I am a product of the constant bombardment of negativity.
LikeLike
Just heard an interview with Eric Wilson, author of Everyone Loves A Train Wreck, Why We Can’t Look Away. He confirms that we get depressed and desensitized from so much negative news.
LikeLike
Yes, all numbing…this is related (somewhat)…
LikeLike
Yes. Thanks for sharing.
LikeLike
I love that paper. Get it as soon as it’s out. Every two years.
LikeLike
🙂 We’ll all be lined up at the news stand.
LikeLike
I wish too…thanks for the smile 🙂
LikeLike
Me too Nat.
LikeLike