Media Blackout Over

For years, I turned a deaf ear to the media, particularly politics and the news. Being fairly engaged in following current events from age 12-19, mostly due to my involvement in activities that placed me in a leader position, working along side of adults, I made a conscience decision to ignore and avoid the media. As much as I enjoyed the pursuit at a young age, I found its toll on my life creating a black and white distinction of extremes, a mirror image of the media’s method of combative information presentation. From 19-29, 10 years of willing negligence, my decade of blackout is over. Strangely though, I still knew of the major happenings in the world in those 10 years, albeit from second hand sources.

What I thought to be true, a sentiment my parents tried to pass down, is that I would somehow endanger myself for not knowing what is happening within the world at the pulse rate of CNN. I also thought and hoped for my world to shrink away to very small world of existence. This would allow me to focus and nourish a world I wanted to live in. These concepts for me, revealed themselves to be completely false.