The reality of news

I was watching the news this afternoon, which is of course dominated by the Palestinian tragedy, when my sister said that she hated watching the news. This is what I thought: 1. You don’t hate watching the news, you hate seeing what is going on in the world and realizing that you are doing nothing … Continue reading

These dreary days

Something’s missing. I have no inspiration. I have no secret hidden talents to keep me sane. I have dreams, but they lack in substance, and the future is failing to motivate me. The worst part is that I am sulking, lost, stuck in a place where I can’t do anything about it.

the hunger games are real

There are so many problems in the world right now. Global warming, Poverty, Famine, Palestine, Ukraine, and the list goes on and on. But it seems that for every catastrophe listed in the news, there is a distraction that takes away from the urgency and the grandeur of the problem, be it the World Cup, … Continue reading