When I go on vacation, I intentionally avoid any news in order to relax. I literally just use my phone for Google maps. When I come back I try to extend that attitude for as long as I can but inevitably go back to reading daily news within a week or so, and then feelings of stress and helplessness invade again.
It's paying attention to the news and other bull#### social media nonsense that has us on edge. Our actual everyday lives are perfectly fine (with the possible exception of rising prices) but we choose to let outside interference occur. Stuff we literally have no control over and can't do a thing to change. I'm as guilty of this as anybody. I'm not necessarily advocating the head in the sand approach, but well ignorance is bliss isn't it?
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