Top 10 Reasons To Avoid The News
Watch the news, they say. It will keep you updated on world events. It will keep you well-informed. Instead, all that following news has done is make you feel overly-stressed out and informed about the things you didn’t want to know in the first place. Did you really want to know that a woman lost her purse in the food court? Or a dog pooped on the jogging track? Not to mention, news reporters occasionally exaggerate and dramatize events to make them more than what they actually are. For example, they will report on a catastrophic event that could end the world. Only the asteroid misses the earth and we later find out that it was nowhere near our planet in the first place. No wonder many call reading the news “doom-scrolling”. Following the news is rarely informative and is mostly stress-inducing. Here are the TOP 10 Reasons Why You Should Avoid the News 1) Ignorance is Bliss Yes, there is much going on now. In your home,...