52 Weeks to Make the World a Better Place: Week 3 - Give up your 'News' addiction!

Doubly appropriate as I'm reading Thoreau right now. But how can this improve the world? Well, it's worth either trying, or at least trying to imagine, not knowing 'what's going on in the world'. How does this make you feel? What's missing? From my own observations, news seems chiefly to provide source for, at best pointless gossip, at worst gloom and hatred. And this is how you spend your day, fretting over a global dose of human folly over which you have no control? Think of it: just endless instances of the same broad subject, human folly. If it means you lose popularity, either become more independent or make new friends whose conversation is less dull. You'll feel much lighter and happier in the long run!