Mental Ill-Health
What we’re taking in when we check our phones is perhaps the single greatest contributor to our mental ill-health…….
Every minute of every day presents us with untold options for filling our minds with the mania, exploits, disasters, furies, reversals, ambitions, triumphs, insanity and cataclysms of strangers around our benighted planet.
Always, news organizations speak of our need to know – and to need to know right now. But what they have left out is our equally great, and often even greater need not to know:
because we cannot change anything,
because the stories are too violent, dispiriting and sad,
because our minds are fragile,
because we have responsibilities closer to home,
because we need to lead our own lives rather than be torn apart by stories of the lives of others……
who are ultimately as remote from and irrelevant to us as the inhabitants of the Egyptian court of King Sneferu in late 2,613 BC.
—-School of Life
https://www.theschooloflife.com/
