It's cowardly of me, I know...

Kismet

Kismet

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but I'm thinking of going on a "news black-out" for the next couple of weeks.

Lately the information is hitting me harder and harder and my resilience is fading.

From a loon causing a train wreck during his suicide attempt to a Stallion going down in a dust storm; from the severe illnesses of friends to the passing of close friends and honored men; from the random incidence of life-threatening illnesses to children; from the madness of human beings throughout the world--the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, for example...all just drains my soul...more than ever before.

I don't know why, most of this sort of business isn't new--things of this sort have happened throughout history.

Tip O'Neil once said that all politics is local; my modification is that maybe all life is really local. But I hear so much of the world and I understand what happened, and maybe WHY it happened, but it leaches the possibility of joy in my small world.

In the scheme of things, no big deal. But the world seems so dark, so often, so relentlessly--I want to shut myself off from it.

Coward.



Be well and safe.
 
Ain't cowardly at all. Sometimes, you have to recharge. Just draw the curtains, dim the lights and monitor, sharpen the khukuris, and chop until you're refreshed.
 
We all need to escape and renew ourselves. Theres nothing cowardly about that. Those of us who go day-in and day-out without any R&R seem to develop ulcers and have heart attacks; also depression and other bad things. There are so many bad things happening each day that its very discouraging. Sometimes I like to visit an older person who doesn't really have anyone - maybe a military veteran who can't get out much. It brightens their day a great deal to have someone to visit with and I feel better afterwards too.

Ice
 
It is recomendable and will brighten you perspectives, I have had to do it several times this last year.
 
Kis,

I believe that we all go through these periods, called "Dark Night of the Soul." I certainly do. As someone else said, 'recharge your batteris.'

However I strongly suggest that if you go on a "news blackout" that you stay in touch with us on the Forum. You contribute a lot here.

Don't black US out. We need you and Kis, you need us. Keep the bond strong. You know that we are here for you and I suggest that your posts, your vitality are helping others.

God NEVER works on one person at a time.

I see the "Dark Night" as a time for reflection and meditation. The world is a beautiful place, or an ugly place. That is for you to decide, and when one person is down, he needs friends more than ever because we, as a group, never go down all at the same time.

You have a LOT of friends here.

And we love you.

;)
 
thombrogan said:
Ain't cowardly at all. Sometimes, you have to recharge. Just draw the curtains, dim the lights and monitor, sharpen the khukuris, and chop until you're refreshed.
Click to expand...

YES exercise will clear the toxins that worry brings. These toxins will stay in the blood unless you exercise (exorcise?) them out! Great idea Thom.


"I knew you before you knew you had hands!" ~Tracey Brogan

"I knew you before you were in the womb" ~ God
 
I get that way sometimes too. I try to keep an "eternal prospective". This is but a blink of an eye in a journey that will last an eternity. I also believe that God is in control and that good and justice will prevail in His time. I'm just happy he allowed me to come along. Hang in there. That you care says a lot about you.
 
I dropped out of all contact for a while last year. I didn't even come in here. I was out for about six months or so. I needed to regroup after a bunch of bad stuff. Nothing wrong with a retreat to regroup, just don't totally throw in the towel.
 
I don't suffer much from news anymore. I realized that there isn't any suffering except my own. You see one hundred thousand people killed in a tsunami but really there is only one person killed. That's all we ever have is ourselves. That's all the suffering that there is. I have been in the process of realizing this for several years and it is finally making sense to me.
 
I'm kind of the opposite. When it seems like things are going OK in the world (ie not as many wars, economy going good, etc) I don't tend to follow the news a lot. When things are bad I watch it more cause I'm trying to see why it is bad and what I could do (ie write my congressmen give $$ to relief efforts etc) to hopefully change it.

I do take time off from watching the little tv that I do watch sometimes. I never watch TV news anyway, cause I don't think they go deep enough.

I remember the 5 years in college I never had a TV and could only get 2 radio stations. I spent a lot of time in the library then reading stuff. Didn't really miss TV.

A few years ago we had a big storm and the power was out at Camp Hollowdweller for 2 weeks. It was actually really nice. What I liked besides no TV, radio, was that there was no buzzing from all the electric appliances. That's what I always like about visiting my homesteader friends places. Since they have no electric, and most not any running water their places are truly quiet. Really good for the nerves
 
In it the main character's teacher told him (I'll paraphrase)... "You have peace when you're up here on the mountain. If you go back to the world you may have to start all over when you return. You can't touch the world without the world touching you."

I try to involve myself in the world of the Two-Leggeds as little as possible. Is that cowardly? Or apathetic? Maybe. But the Two-Leggeds haven't impressed me much thus far. So I try to take a lesson from the cats and dogs in the house. Their worries are few. Good luck, my Brother.

Frank
 
Hey, we all get that way from time to time. When it all gets to much for me, I just do what comes naturally: I seem to black out a bit, but then find myself completely naked, and painted bright blue from head to toe with one of those dry erase markers. Then I make a mud-mask and plaster it into my hair, along with some leaves and twigs to disguise myself, grab my AR-15 and go hunting in the parking lot at work. Only trouble being naked is there is no place to hang my 18" Ang Khola. (Watch it! No cracks about being able to find a place to hang my Kagas Katne! I can at least manage a Bilton!)

After shooting up some suspicious looking cars, all of which are more expensive than mine and belong to Sales droids who do less work than me, I'll eventually find something to hunt, and will eat it raw crouched down out of sight (mostly, except for those wimps in Marketing) in back of my bosses Cadillac. For some reason no one bothers me at all when I get in these moods.

After I've eaten my fill I'll take a huge symbolic leak on the side of his car and head back to work refreshed!

Try it! It works for me!

Norm
 
The Media brings you the worst of the world, in the worst light. Happiness is not newsworthy... If there isn't a plane crash, violence, kidnap, etc. it just isn't a news day.

Hear that song "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley.

The world doesn't completely su_k, they just want you to think that it does.

Somebody, somewhere is having a great day. It's just not news...



Ad Astra
 
Chronicles of the Tao is one of my favorite all time books! Good stuff.

There is nothing wrong with taking a "News Fast". When I first moved back to Atlanta, four years ago, I started having depression problems. I finally found the trigger was watching the morning news every day. It tore me up, particularly when it involved children. A friend of mine, a psychologist, recommended to stop watching the news, and it worked. Unfortunately, a lot of it is designed for shock effect.

As for separating from the world of the two-legs, I just look at it as strategic distancing from certain individuals. You are responsible for maintaining your own balance, so nothing wrong with that either.

Just my 2 cents worth. Sorry, no refunds. :D
 
Ennervation: like having all the "go juice" sucked out of you.

You see good things happening but don't notice them cause you aren't looking for them. You only see the too much pain and sorrow.

We've had ten days without sun here - between fog and high clouds.

Look at the newspaper: the guy who tried to cut his wrists, stab himself in the chest, and parked his jeep on the LA railroad tracks then tried to get it off and couldn't, is now gonna get hit with the death penalty. For being suicidal.

Why not say he** with it all? Looks like God has? Well doesn't it?

Gonna go catch up on my sleep.

I'll be ok later, probably...

PS: I ain't going until I can take a goodly number of people with me to cleanse the world first.
 
Kis, I did just what you are speaking of 2 years ago. 5 deaths in the family in 3 years, loss of employment, back injury worsening ~ I was depressed and reeling for the first time in my life. I could not see the good things, or just wouldn't acknowledge them. My plate was so full I couldn't deal with the rest of the world's issues. It took darn near a year to pull out of that funk. I recommend turning off the boob tube, but make sure and don't turn off family and friends. If we are patient the dark of night slowly shifts to a bright new morning. May God's grace be with you.

Steve
 
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