It is completely overwhelming.
Each new article posted / emailed / broadcast, each new newsclip both informs and confuses.. infuriates and defeats, offers hope and despair.
Like many of you, I try to read, to make sense, to inform myself, to keep up with trending opinion and breaking news. While trying to live my life, work, parent, buy groceries, do laundry etc.
I was having a gripe session with myself the other day about all this (as one does) when I had a re-frame moment ( a habit I am getting good at!)
I wondered to myself if I could see all this complexity as a gift?
After all there is no chance I have enough time or am smart enough to actually find the "truth" and even if I did it would still only likely be my truth for 5 minutes before some other information pushed up and caused a reconsideration of it all.What if I could do what I can to sift through what I can, and be as well informed as I can, and then, instead of feeling overwhelmed, I could just be satisfied?
Even more what if I could see all those articles and posts and opinions as each contributing a pixel to a global image that maybe one day will reveal a picture that is truthful and real?
Then I could leave my rage and my confusion and distress a little and just read / watch / think and know that for as many Governments and groups and people that there are in this beautiful and broken world, there are opinions and stories.
I get to be a pixel in the picture, a line in the story, even without seeing or knowing the whole of it.
So I have decided to see the complexity as a gift. To be humbly received, examined, used as is useful and at times put away for a while.
SO now to read the 15 articles from my newsfeed this week and see how it goes!
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