I have always thought it was important to stay informed and learn as much as possible about the world and to try as much as I can to see it without the filter of personal bias.
But the more I learn about people and the things they do to each other and the things that have happened and are happening right now, the more I wish that none of this was real and that we would all just disappear completely. Especially in the last two months my worldview has been tending heavily toward misanthropy. And now, more than ever before in my life, I feel completely powerless to change the things I don’t like about the world.
I wonder if it wouldn’t be more profitable to just close my eyes and ears and stop paying attention, since paying attention hasn’t done me any good so far. It doesn’t seem to have made me a better person, anyway.