Too much of news is injurious to health.

When you are in a job you always dream of time when you need not wake up early in morning to get to the same office, when you need not plan the grocery shopping for the weekend as your weekdays had been damn busy, when you take an afternoon nap etc etc. This are called ‘Working class hallucination syndrome’ . A short break from work cannot help you in getting rid of this syndrome as the time between starting of the vacation and the end of it is so small that by the time you think of getting over this syndrome its time to join the work back.
Recently I had been lucky enough to get five weeks off from my office to visit my husband in France and this was the perfect time for me to do whatever I wanted to do and couldn’t do because of office. TV is always a part of this dream. TV is not always the idiot box and there are few good things that I wanted to see on TV, so I switched on BBC. I had been one ardent fan of this news channel and so it was proper time to show my gratitude by tuning into the news channel for whole day. It gave me immense pleasure to listen to news for whole day even when it is getting repeated. Days passed with me switching between BBC / CNN / France 24. With days it got more interesting as I had option of changing from one channel to other and then to next. It got me so much engrossed that I didn’t relaise that the only things that I am watching is earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, economic recession, nuclear armament, wars, militant attacks, elections…there is no end to it. And as we all know 1 bad + 1 Bad = double bad and so repetition of these news had more depressing effect on me. Every morning I woke up in good mood but by afternoon it started getting depressing. I couldn’t figure out the reason as I was doing what I wanted to do then why this depression by evening. I attributed this to my long stays at home, to which I am not used to of. One day out of curiosity I turned the TV off and shifted to this online news. Good point about online news is that it is totally dependent on you that is you read what you want to read and not like TV that you have to see what they are showing and that too in same chronology. Then I realized that (bad) news and there repetition is making me depressed. Have we run out of good news or the good has stopped happening to our planet earth. Or there can be one more viewpoint, good is not covered the way bad is covered. All these thought process made me sick that I had to turn off the TV, or atleast the news channel .
We always want to know what is happening in my neighbor, in my city, in my country or overall in world. But it should be kept in limits so that it doesn’t make us forget that despite of all the bad things happening in world, it is still a wonderful place to live in.