I avoided the news for two months straight. I only got my news from Telegram before coming back here. I too like most every one here as well. I know what you mean about being crouchy, I feel that way when I feel anxiety. And too much news can make almost anyone anxious .
yes it's probably an anxiety thing for me too, and a blunt autistic way of communicating :| I have to mentally force myself to display the positive way I feel about a conversation using "actual words", and not pretend I don't come across as a crabby arsehole all the time, lol
one day I will turn off the internet and read all those books I never got around to
I absolutely love to read. I'm a book collector. But, I have to be in the right frame of mind and at peace otherwise I get distracted.
I know what you mean about using positive language instead of negative. Most people aren't all that informed and don't understand why one would be worried. Therefore, I try hard to censor the negative. Many don't want to understand.
For some reason I stopped reading books a while back and voraciously consumed online sources instead. Being able to quickly find a lot of related information really quickly is very addictive, given that I grew up lugging books back from the library and checking anything back then probably took days of work.
I'm sure this changing meta alters how we think? I remember working 9-5 and being so bored with the lack of input, now I'll be wide awake at 3am because I'd randomly discovered some new topic to understand...
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