Ever feel like it's just too much?

Kurt,

I hope this song helps cheer you up...


No doubt, the world is full of a lot of c-r-a-p (pardon my salty language), but there is a lot of good out there too. Try searching Google for "good news sites" or similar, and you will see people everywhere really are doing their part to make the world a better place.

Hang in their, buddy.

All the best,
Michael

Bad things can happen, try to make the most of the good times.

The fan that fell was at the Ballpark in Arlington. Home of the Rangers. It's where I live, so it was all over the news. It's actually only the second time that someone has fallen in 15 years. It was just an unfortunate accident. I understand that there are a lot of bad things happening, but it's been this way forever. There's just more people now and it's covered more on the news. The news runs mostly bad things that happen. People have been dying in accidents or murdered or scammed forever. It's just that the news only seems to run those stories.

It can all feel a bit overwhelming. At times like that, it is nice to be able to be focused, and zoom in on the good things. When you look for peace and beauty, it is amazing how many times you find it, and it is all around you. Hope your day gets better!

I know what you mean Kurt.

All I can say is...

Don't allow the frustration to get the better of you.

TL

I think you watch too much TV. Going out for a walk was probably your best bet.

Hope you feel better.

Kurt, that's one of the reasons I don't watch much TV anymore. All the negativity, from news to "entertainment" programming, DOES catch up to us sooner or later.

Not a TV watcher either. Not only do they report upsetting little crap instead of what is going on at levels we should actually be concerned about - once they get a story they beat on it and repeat it until you are just ready to walk into the studio and stick duct tape over their mouths and sell them back to the zoo they escaped from.

And this would be part of the reason why I don't own a TV. I get the top headlines e-mailed in, and my friends fill me in if there's anything particularly important going on elsewhere in the world.

Thanks for those that understood my OP...

BTW, I was watching ESPN, Animal Planet and I was just flipping through and saw OJ on E (I never watch E). These aren't supposed to be channels dedicated to "hard news", just the opposite.

And some can put their head in the sand and not feel for a little 6 year old boy, being held by a stranger, who had just watched his father fall to his death...But I can't.

I rarely sit down and watch anything through but I have the TV on in the background, usually 24 hours - to make matters worse I have had a real fascination for forensic psycholology. Talk about depressing.

I have pretty much weaned myself off of those now because honestly I have seen just how depraved mankind is - it's unbelievable. It's the real horror show.

I never liked Nancy Grace but I admit I was very curious about the Kaylee thing off and on - like I was Jon Benet Ramsey. Yeah, I guess the unbelievable horror.

Let me tell you Kurt - just a day on a Helpdesk gets to be 'Just too much' for me - that's why I came here and was going to tell you unbelievable instances of being abused by people -

But, in view of recent developments I will cop to feeling very blessed no matter how the little things in life manage to turn your stomach.

'... the girl cried because she had no shoes, until she saw the one who had no feet'.

Nothing to make you feel so blessed as to see a US Veteran in a wheel chair with no legs and a big smile on his face. Beyond horror, this is true heartbreak.

You can decide to listen to inspirational messages or songs that will uplift you and you will stop feeling that heaviness inside of you.

I'm not trying to persuade anyone to change their habits, and I don't intend for this to be preachy but it may sound that way because I don't have a better way to say it, but I just thought you might want to know ... those who say the TV is only on in the background, the negative messages are still picked up by your subconscious. This isn't me speculating, studies have been done that prove this, you could be programming your mind with negativity, depending on what you have on in the background. You might want to consider what the end result of that could be. Or not. I just thought it only right to make aware those who weren't.

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I think that going for a walk was a good move. Sometimes you just need to get away from the TV. The media totally likes to look at the negative things to get our reactions. It's nice when you do find positive things on TV. But then again it's also good to live in reality and know that bad stuff does happen.

There is always bad stuff happening and there is always good stuff happening. Trouble is that the media focuses on the bad stuff, which is why I avoid TV and dont read 'news'papers.

I hear you Kurt, that reminds me, when this digital switchover occurs here in the UK (very soon I believe) I plan to destroy my TV in the most satisfying way possible I will have to think of an interesting way to destroy it.

I'll have to video it and get the whole multi-angled slow-mo in your face special FX thing going on and package it up as a WSO on how to be more productive.

Honestly the only reason I have satellite television is so I can watch UFC pay per views with friends and hopefully NFL football this season.

I think the bad things in the world are probably happening at an evolving level and possibly even much less than back before the 18th century--however, we have more channels of getting that kind of information.

The world is truly flat now because of technology. Something that happens clear across the world (or even in another state) takes minutes for us to hear about--whereas in times before it took days, possibly even months to hear about stuff like that.

It was probably easier to tune out back then honestly.

Sometimes I feel everything is too much. Usually takes more than watching something on TV though.