What Do You Watch For Comfort?
What is your ‘go to’ when you want to shut your ears to the real world?
Despite everything going on, I’m of the (perhaps controversial) opinion that the world right now is not a particularly awful place to live. No worse and perhaps better than, say, what it was like in the 1960s and 1970s but if you consume everything the media — both social and mainstream — throws at you then, no doubt, it can feel extremely gloomy and depressing and like everything is getting worse.
Obviously, I’m saying this as we come out of a two-year pandemic, a war in Ukraine and a growing and worrying cost of living crisis that is affecting all of us but previous decades have all had their challenges too.
There are only so many scary headlines, bad news stories and political gossip pieces I can take, so for the sake of my mental health, I don’t watch the news. I read it and keep myself informed but I cannot watch moving images. After the news has finished they play over and over in my mind to the detriment of my sanity.
But I’m also an avid consumer of words and stories. According to Clifton Strengths, my number three strength is input. I seek and store information and I have a curiosity about and interest in a wide variety of subjects.
