Do you think sometimes in these days of instant news from around the world that we have too much...news that is!

 As sad as it is to hear of a bus crash in Russia or a bridge collapse in Africa do we really need to know everything that happens in the world. Every little detail?
 
I couldn’t sleep the other night, what’s new,  so switched on my radio and hit after hit after hit disasters. One after the other after the other and ending on, as they so often do especially on the TV news...some cute animal story! Just laying there trying to take it all in is difficult enough let lone separating the many disasters as they pile into your mind one after the other.
 
We listen, take it in and then let it go. We can’t do anything..change anything in another country far far away no matter how sad and distressing it is. Often leaving me wondering did we really need to even know that?
 
The internet keeps us so informed of every little detail in the world that happens and who and how many died. I know we can’t close our minds to the suffering in the world but there’s only so much we can do...and only so much we can take in come to that. Most of the time it  is really no use to us to know. No use at all!
 
In the villages and small towns years ago people survived without hearing what’s happening on the other side of the world or the weather in some far off country. It was easier then surely.
 
It’s not putting blinkers on and not wanting to know it’s more of what can we do when we do know?
 
We know it can be a big bad world out there but surely knowing every little detail is often too much to handle for anyone!
 
 

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