Starting your day with the Newspaper?

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

We live in a digital age and most of the information we consume today either comes through social media or some news app installed on our devices, but there's also a distinct population relying solely (or in addition) on the newspaper even today, and this article might appear more relatable to them.

From last 1.5 - 2 yrs., my mornings generally begin with a cup of coffee and a newspaper, someone told me it's very important to read the newspaper every day so that you can get equipped with the knowledge of current affairs on a daily basis, and I followed without asking; It usually takes me about an hour or so to finish it and it's true I really do get the exposure of current happenings across my country and across the globe; but there's a catch, I get the exposure of various kinds of news i.e. From positive to negative, political to non-political, economy to entertainment, positive measures to heinous crimes, everything is right there in front of me every single morning, and honestly it hasn't really been that beneficial to my mental state than it has been to my general awareness level, and the credits goes to the aforementioned type of news that fills the majority of my daily newspaper i.e. The crime section, but to my correction there is usually no such well-defined section instead it is present all over the newspaper, divided into various sections, comprising mostly of crimes like murders, rapes, mob lynching and what not, and all it does is make me realize how helpless I am and how low some humans can go sometimes for their monetary gain or ruin someone's life just to satisfy their lust, comparing them to animals will be derogatory to the animal kingdom itself, but that's not the only issue here, the real issue that I want to highlight in this article is starting our every single day with the worst sort of information out there, and I would not consider it the best way of starting the day, would I?

So, why don't I skip the newspaper in the first part of my day itself and shift its timing to a later hour?

To be honest I've already tried and failed in the task; the short explanation for it would be "because I've been in the habit of reading the newspaper for so long that now if I don't do it as my first-morning chore, I feel like something is missing;" some people might regard it as a positive habit that should be incorporated by everyone but for me, it has been a terrible habit that has negatively influenced my mental state for a very long time, and this is something I really need to work upon.

While this might not be a problem for a majority of people, I would completely agree with the fact that many people might not be affected by such news with the same intensity as others do and they might even consider skipping through such sections and continuing with the rest of the positive information available in the newspaper, but for certain people (including me) such an option might not exist, and I'm sure that a considerable part of the crowd belongs to this category too.

And I'm in no way suggesting that we should stop reading the newspaper altogether or become like an ostrich with our heads buried into the ground, that will be an even worse thing to do because if we don't read about it, we won't think about it, and if we won't think about it, we wouldn't really do anything about it; but that's not what we are here for, we're not here to ignore the world's problems and just focus on our lives, our real goal should be to ratify those problems, think of a solution, and take appropriate actions and ultimately make this world a better place.

Thank you for your time.

- Reshu Kumar

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