Is it worth reading the newspapers?

A friend admits to me: “On vacation, I will not read a newspaper, I will not even open the Internet. I want to detoxify myself.” There are a few sites where some point falls into temptation – always defeated by luck – to stop reading newspapers, whatever their support. Is that the liver doesn’t resist much of the news frenzy. It is better to know less than what is happening in the world. ”

Sometimes, correct, it may be a cure to get away from bombarding information of increasingly powerful atrocities, planets, and full. The last thing I read here this morning in Brazil: a young man is killing his father and mother and trying their bodies in a locker and giving a party to 60 friends. Today, interest grows in meditation, meditation, an encounter with our universe.

Curiously – perhaps due to the distortion of my studies in psychology – I have always seen information as one of the best treatments to be less unhappy. I do not mean, for example, treating a friend, after years of terror in a Nazi camp, was afraid of death and used the newspaper, when reading the obituary, you feel happy that you are still alive another day.

It is something more dangerous. There are those who open their eyes every morning turn to positive thinking that helps them better perform the difficult task of this day, or who recite prayer or spell or go to some spiritual spring. And there are those who wouldn’t feel comfortable without being able to open the newspaper – in any support – while eating breakfast.

I am one of those. I have been sleeping and waking up with the heartbeat in the world for more than 40 years, with the latest news. In my youth, I read that French literature and Nobel writer Francois Morillac said that “the morning reading of the newspaper was the prayer of the common man.” You can live without knowing anything about others, trapped in the same shell, although boring, it must result from anonymous existential poverty. It is true that when the newspaper is opened or when diving on the Internet, we run the risk of having breakfast with tears of pain in the world that reach the cup of coffee from smoking. It is true that sometimes our soul will freeze when we discover that we are more demons than angels, all human beings.

But it is also true that by closing our eyes to those tears, and to those atrocities, we will increasingly become pieces of marble, unable to cry with those who weep and we will be happy with those who have been able to be. The philosopher told me that only “he who loses the ability to be surprised.” What are news, axe or flower, but the surprise that the world offers us through information?

Our heart will suffer from the news that frightens and enjoys the scientific discovery that will save the lives of thousands. There are no newspapers that only publish good news – all of them have ended in failure – because life is not like that. Sometimes it is benign and sometimes cruel, but all of the others, who weep or laugh, are our cell, and if that doesn’t make us vibrate, we’re dead.

Life, though it is always moving for the better – Can the current financial crises in Europe be compared to the two great world wars that have planted millions of people recently? Will it always be combined in pain and pain? Glory. Refusing to inform you for fear of suffering is declaring our defeat before life, but rather refusing to accept us.

You might have an appearance of happiness that changes the newspaper with a portion of blood and terror to drink beer and some fried anchovies lying on the beach, but at the end of the extraordinary absence of news, only disappointment from selfishness awaits us, this is the creation of this terrible popular saying, “Eyes do not You see a heart that does not feel. ”

It is better to have pain or disgust than reading the newspaper rather than blindly and with a wrinkled heart. Why is the heart unable to win with the beats of the world? This Jewish prophet, who knew the human spirit well, uttered one of the most obscure phrases in history: “Let the dead bury the dead.” He was interested in life, sometimes cruel – he was stuck in a tree – sometimes classy. I think about Gandhi, Luther King, Mandela and millions of unknown people who can die for others. The dead do not scare us. We are living creatures that are scary, but so are we, not as we would like sometimes, but as we really are.

The news, yesterday from the morning newspaper, and today at every moment, is the best mirror of our soul. There is no use in her heart or breaking it. Smashing it will end our blood staining as well.

Kenneth

Kenneth is a proud native of sydney, born and raised there. However, he pursued his education abroad and studied in Australia. Kenneth has worked as a journalist for almost a decade, making valuable contributions to prominent publications such as Yahoo News and The Verge. Currently, he serves as a journalist for The Hear Up, where he focuses on covering climate and science news. You can reach Kenneth at [email protected].