NEWS JUNKIE
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Recent shifts in some priorities and new (something old, something new, something blended) learnings have me returning to my most productive routines/re-grounding. Yes, compass settings verified – it’s planning for next year time …
Each morning, akin to waking next to a merry-go-round going 100 miles an hour, our alternatives being to crawl back into bed or leap aboard that fast ride.
Before we wake, newsfeeds dump unfiltered gobs of news for us to sift through, old media channel-switching makes it no simpler, and newspapers await us on doorsteps – FOMO (fear of missing out) is not as prevalent for me as is the fear of missing out on something significant.
I’m a news junkie who cannot kick the habit …
We all receive information, news, and garbage every day – it comes in our doors, electronic portals, and ears without filters or labels to help us tell the wheat from the chaff.
The turnaround, however, is with what we put every day.
What we say, publish, and republish, re-tell, and respond to – entirely within our control.
There are old clichés about ‘what we put out there comes back to us.’
When we clear away our debris du jour and ignore the pace at which we are flying, we realize there are far more essential things than understanding the minutiae of blockchain, cryto-whatever and every nuanced argument pro/con on politics, climate change, and whether burning containers that fell off some boat contained anything that matters to us.
This rock we are riding evolves daily, circles its star once a year – while hurtling through space at 30,000 meters/second (67,000 miles/hr.), so maybe we don’t need to be so quick to jump on everything.
Earth has been maintaining its speed for 4.5 billion years. That isn’t going to change. Humans have been around in our current form for about 200,000 years and still struggle to get along and still can’t manage our sleep cycle …
And where is my coffee, where is my newspaper?
Reader feedback:
Dear Mark, Re: Your October 25th musings, "Weekly planned or weakly planned" I really liked this column. It gave me some ideas of where to go with the next congregational musings that I have been struggling with. Thank you, WF, Valleyview, AB