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I made a big change in the way I view life today. I removed Latest News from my Google Personalized Page.
I think the best way to explain this is with a story. I had a manager who always bought the news paper. When he brought it into work, he would pick out the sports and funnies and leave the rest in the lobby. Every day he would ritually removed all the important news, business and leave it unread. I thought it was pretty naive of him to ignore affairs and one day I asked him why did he not read all the news.
He looked me in the eyes.
"All the news in the papers is usually bad news. Someone died. Someone in trouble. Someone bombing someone. I will find out eventually but I don't think I want to be one of the first to know. So I read the funnies and sports. In sports there are always winners, maybe my team will win, maybe another team will win -- but someone always does."
I think I feel the same way now. I'll find out eventually, but I don't think I want to be the first to know anymore. But I will still keep reading the funnies.
I think the best way to explain this is with a story. I had a manager who always bought the news paper. When he brought it into work, he would pick out the sports and funnies and leave the rest in the lobby. Every day he would ritually removed all the important news, business and leave it unread. I thought it was pretty naive of him to ignore affairs and one day I asked him why did he not read all the news.
He looked me in the eyes.
"All the news in the papers is usually bad news. Someone died. Someone in trouble. Someone bombing someone. I will find out eventually but I don't think I want to be one of the first to know. So I read the funnies and sports. In sports there are always winners, maybe my team will win, maybe another team will win -- but someone always does."
I think I feel the same way now. I'll find out eventually, but I don't think I want to be the first to know anymore. But I will still keep reading the funnies.
2 Comments:
you know what is disturbing? crazy babysitter killing pregnant mom and snatching fetus by cutting it out of the dead woman's womb. first to know or not. that is a bit of news I rather not fill my mind with. i know the world is crazy, but i rather not be reminded by stories liket his on CNN 3days in a roll.
By lily, at 6:47 PM
See, this is why I removed News from my front page. I no longer need to know of the sick twisted minds that populate this green earth. Also Steve Irwin's snuff film is on videos.google.com but I have not viewed it. I can't bring myself to see it. I just don't need to know
By Tierrie, at 1:22 AM
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