Father kills son for being gay

[MikeW]

Tragedies are everywhere. We hear about a few. Most we don't. Good thing, too.

What's important is what's going on in the immediate IRL world of my life. Everything else is mostly a distraction. (Note I say *mostly*... there can be far-afield events that DO directly affect my day-to-day life.) I can't change the world. I can't make people behave the way I think they should. I do well to make sane, constructive decisions in my OWN life. So much "news" or "information" in our world today. So easy to get all upset about stuff we can't do ANYTHING about. How does that help us? LOL... I'm so out of it I only heard yesterday about the tragedy in Brussels... and even then it was quite by accident that I heard. NOW... I have to tell you... I haven't always been this way. I used to be a news junky. Always reading, listening, watching... paying attention to the big bad world. I don't anymore and quite frankly I feel I'm a much happier person. It's not that I don't care or I don't want to know exactly. I do care. Very much. BUT... if it is something I can't do anything about directly, how does knowing about it really make a difference?

IDK, I'm just talking about how I'm dealing with it. Each to his or her own.