Thursday, January 4, 2024

Staying Sane in a Crazy World

Here's one approach to living: Build your house underground and stay there.

There's only one way to keep from sliding into a pit of despair and staying there forever: Wear blinders. 

Not literally, of course, like a horse training on a track, but figuratively, like an average citizen who doesn't want to know about the latest school shooting, the folly of politics, the death toll of the current wars, the coming environmental collapse, the loss of human lives from natural disasters, and the number of homeless swarming into the country and competing for sidewalk space with drug addicts, mostly because they can't do anything about it. 

My New Year's resolutions are twofold and attainable: Avoid all news and stay off the Internet. I can't wait to start feeling better!


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