How do you deal with information overload?

I get snippets of news leaking in, despite my efforts to avert my gaze. Yea I care, but it's just too much.
 

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Pepper said:
People who pay no attention to the nonsense are the leading cause of the nonsense persisting. To help stop the nonsense we must be aware and involved. In droves.
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Perhaps stopping the nonsense from happening is your roll in life, not mine. I commend your concern and perhaps optimism making the world a better place, I have difficulty defining the nature of living in a better place. I choose not to get involved based on the theory there is no place like home with canine companion Toto.
Seriously the concept of Hippy Heaven no longer exists.
 
I either streamline my news watching (World News Tonight With David Muir) and read snippets of the news on several apps I have. I limit how much bad news I watch/read. I have told friends, particularly one who always wants to get into a political discussion about #45...that I just can't keep doing that. So I wind up cutting the conversation (if not her) short. I'm so sick of that BS. Sometimes I lose myself in T.V. programs and good music. Fun conversations, which I have quite often, always help.
 

With everything going on in the world today I never watch the news channels. On the other hand, my husband watches all the news. So I put on my earphones and either listen to music or watch old sitcoms on youtube. Of course, I also spend a Loooooot of time in the Senior forums.
 
To find out what's going on in the world, you only have to hear it once and not over and over with analysis, and that doesn't take more than a few minutes in the day. Otherwise, I like to get up and do things and not hear about others doing things.
 
Liberty said:
...nature is the perfect antidote,
go outside...
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So true! Had a headache last week that was different from migraines--my eyeballs were sore and my neck hurt intensely. I realized I'd been glued to the computer following the Ukraine invasion and was in pain due to screen strain. I took a walk to stretch my neck and got so much more than just the relief of moving stiff muscles. The sight and sound of the breeze in the trees, ripples on the pond, watching geese swim, the smells of spring ...nature heals. If I could only give the peace of that walk to every person in this world. :cry:
 
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