I stumbled upon a blog that said its important to journal your life yesterday and oh yes i thought, what happened to the blog you once had... so i just browse this and realize how silly i have been and also I seem to have had existential problems back then as well... hmm... much has changed.. life has changed.. your problems have changed.. people have changed.. With all that we know about how things change in 10-12 years, the thought i wanted to leave here is the fact that as a kid i used to read the news paper from head to toe , watch TV news etc. because i used to love following politics.. i liked to know what was happening in the world.. I used to appreciate the ways correspondents write news.. i used to think why they used 'X' word in the article instead of 'Y' word... one among my many childhood dreams was becoming a psephologist interpreting election results and giving insights to the general public.. I am saying all this because we somewhere believed 15-20 years back that the news narrative we received was true (to an extent it was true). Now we are at a stage where we are unable to differentiate between facts and fake news.. Reading news papers makes me miserable and I am at loss of words to explain how painful this is to someone who loved news and loved politics. Like my morning tea, newspapers were an essential part of growing up... awaiting supplements for each day, there was so much joy.. awaiting and finally getting an 'young world' on friday gave you so much joy.. what does kids of these days have to expect for every week? Read the news paper is the first good habit that is thought in schools those days... now i am afraid to say this to my son.. i dont want him to get sucked into the narrative that someone wants him to read.. i want to know the news but there is nobody i trust..
To the deeper question that this brings... apply the same to your own life... not all what others say about you is true even if you believe it is.. being constantly told you are good at something does not mean you are good at it.. i was also constantly told that i am not good at doing a particular activity but later i realised i have been branded so and made to believe so as well for their own advantages a narrative spreads since even you end up believing it.. So the thought is dont believe anyone at face value.. every word think and accept into your system or else eject.. times are such.. people are such.. Not sure whether we were being fed wrongly and we are beginning to realise only now ? or we were being fed rightly some 10-15 years back but world has became nastier place later, i am not sure.. I was a natural in trusting people... now i run away from anyone who is seemingly nice.. on the contrary people who are slightly crooked interest me.. hehe..
How good were those days when the opinions of the news correspondents was confined only to the editorial page...? *sigh*
And
To what we all have become.
