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  • June 17, 2016 at 8:50 pm #107561
    Anonymous
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    Dear Sann:

    You have so much to say, Sann, without reading newspapers. There is so much going on in your brain, that it by itself can fill a newspaper. You don’t need the newspapers (please feel free to get rid of them). You have plenty of interesting things to say otherwise. This is making me think of the poem you posted today on another thread. The newspapers are like one of the thousands of serious moves you are planning before you can… talk about interesting things to others, while the short cut would be to … surrender the efforts to ..borrow something interesting from the newspaper and let up what you already have in you, plenty of life experiences, thoughts and feelings that said authentically, openly, will be more interesting than newspapers.

    anita

    June 18, 2016 at 2:17 am #107573
    Maria_L
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    Dear Sann,

    You don’t read news(papers)? Consider yourself blessed! 🙂 I am not joking, I know many people who were advised by doctors not to follow them because of so many logical reasons (it will be a long message if I start talking about each one of them). But they are all made to sound ‘sensational’, to make you bit scared, and knowing about people like Erdogan and Trump… 🙂 i don’t think it’s the best food for your brain.

    I’d like to remind you about a saying

    “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

    So we can’t all be good in everything… big deal!! And you know what I have learnt the hard way through the years ? People like to be listened more than they like to listen. I find the best way to connect with someone is to make them talk about something they love. So if you come across a ‘news junkie’, be free to put a big smile on your face and say stuff like ‘How interesting that I’have met someone so well informed about this topic, cause i always wanted to know more, but never got the time to explore. Tell me, what is the general opinion of the public of that politician… why do you think he is liked/disliked?’

    Or you can just ask them about their hobbies… It always works. Do not get obsessed with the idea to know about stuff you don’t care about, especially the news… stay away from the news 🙂

    June 18, 2016 at 3:02 am #107577
    Sann
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    Hi Anita and Maria.
    Thank you for your replies. I should get away from the computer now, and don’t have much time the next days, so I’ll reply later.
    I need to think about this.
    Maria, thank you for reminding me of that quote. I was actually just saying it myself a few days ago, when i was taling to someone on a phone helpline about my situation and my despair. It might be that this is the case for me as well, with the newspapers, that I want to keep up more with the world in order to look interesting, to look good enough, to be accepted by other people. And that it is still a way to not accept myself, and not allowing myself to do what I fits me more. I might have more relation whit spirituality, but never allow myself to explore it because that looks silly. Then it might work 2 ways, that I also have something to say to others that they don’t know about. I am very sensitive, and find it important in live to develop myself to learn to create more kindness and compassiong, and reading the news often makes me feel desperate and icecold, it’s too much to take it all in.
    I will think about it, I might reply later. Thank you for your replies.

    So do you guys not read the newspapers at all, or do you just follow the news very ‘lightly’, or…?

    June 18, 2016 at 6:30 am #107582
    Anonymous
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    Dear Sann:

    I don’t read the news at all; don’t listen to the news, don’t watch the news, nothing. I hear things when around people as people talk about some news, not my initiative. And when that happens I do have something to say, as is my nature (to say something about so many topics, many which boil down to the same “building blocks” as I call them, the building blocks of human nature, that is).

    anita

    June 18, 2016 at 10:42 am #107593
    Maria_L
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    Dear Sann,

    I used to live in a country with a lot of political and ethnic tensions that got worse the last years. Everybody read the news, everyone talked about the news there, everyone was politically ‘charged’ or scared. I remember telling my friends: how I miss those days when we used to talk about what are we gonna do this weekend, when we exchanged ideas, discussed books… So I know first hand how unhealthy that situation can be. Now, I don’t even wanna open a news portal… I’d rather see a documentary about spirituality, read a book about psychology, take a long walk in the park. Life is too short to spend it bombing yourself with such negativity.

    But I understand your need to get familiar with topics in order to blend in better socially… For example, I am really bad at history, and when I visit a new historical city, a museum, a monument… I am scared to even open the mouth cause I’d probably make a fool of myself. And I’ve been doing a lot of traveling with new friends lately, people I’d like to stay in my life 😀

    How do you feel about conspiracy theories? They are really popular topic lately, connected with the current state of society, probably bit less scary cause they are.. theories? There are interesting documentaries out there that are easy to follow 🙂

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