Peace, ultimately!

 

Lately, my mind has been peaceful and positive, despite all the virus-driven restrictions! Either something has happened that has not happened before, or something has not happened that used to happen before. I dug in to find out why.

I realized, after some introspection, that I’ve been skipping a routine act for over a week – the habit of spending the post-office evening hours in front of the idiot box! Instead, I have been sipping my evening tea elsewhere – legs stretched out, serenaded by choice lounge music, lost in a beautiful world!

I have stayed away from the chaos called ‘debates’ on topics pedestrian to critical, chaperoned by rude ‘I-know-it-all’ anchors. I have shunned the starved 24X7 channels that pick up the worst ‘news’ and present their dramatized versions with background scores that can challenge the best of Bond movies. I have not bothered for the ‘Breaking News’ reportage that highlight, reinforce, magnify and rub negativity in viewers’ minds, something that burgeons like cockroaches leading to despair and abandon.

The lingering effects of the negative news hard-sold by our media are self-administered poison for us. No respite in sight my fellow victims! They will do what it takes to make their money. We need to do what it takes to defend our mental peace.

I found my peace away from them. Are you still a sitting duck for the predators?