Stories I Do Not Care About Today
We are only allowed a fleeting, finite amount of time and headspace in this life. I’ve recently begun to feel this even more acutely as I spend more of my waking hours following the news on the internet. What has (occasionally) saved me from teetering over the edge entirely is practicing a kind of mindful ignorance—choosing to fully ignore the news stories I find so dumb, so galling, or so otherwise oppressively boring that I simply cannot force myself to give them more than a passing, disinterested glance.