I've been hiding out from the news of the world all month, doing Nanowrimo (write a novel in one month.) Having gone to political science, I know a lot of news junkies--people who couldn't get away from their newspaper reading if they tried. I've never been like that. I like to know what's going on in the world, but I also accept that if I escape from it all for a little while, they won't notice I'm gone. What's sort of depressing is when I tune back in and find everything's the same!
The stories I couldn't avoid were the Mumbai killings and the shopper rampage at Walmart. Not a very merry start to the Christmas season.
:-(
On the other hand, withdrawing from the negative can sometimes help to refocus on the positive. No matter what anyone around me believes or tells me, I still think humans are just as capable of beauty as they are of ugliness. But we kinda hafta make that choice every day.
On that note, I'll post here The Most Depressing Christmas Song I Know. (It's not overtly Christmas, but it appeared on Judy Collins' Christmas album.) I had to upload it to youtube myself, and for all I know it'll get taken down--depends how Princelike she is. ;-)
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Judy Collins: A Most Depressing Christmas
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