my instinct
or rather, my mind's instinct
when there's a pause in the proceedings of life
is to check the news
on TV, BBC or CNN or Euronews or Al Jazeera
of HNK the Japanese channel
or maybe all of them
if I get caught up
in the whole
I want to know everything
even though none of it is relevant to me or my life
kind of addiction
or online
the Herald and Scotsman
even though
because I don't pay a subscription
or register where it says Please Register
I usually can't read the articles I am interested in
and online sometimes too the BBC
It used to be the World News, then the UK, then the Scottish
but to be honest
the UK news section is becoming too irrelevant to my life
even by my own standards that all news is irrelevant to my life
for me to bother scanning
but best of all
is when
like now
my mindful mind kicks in
dumps the idea of reading the news
as it won't be any different from last time I checked three hours ago
and go and write this instead
even though when I first decided to do so
I had no idea that this would be what I'd write
nor that this would be the way the writing ends.
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