Information Overload

I have truly become an information junkie.  I have to break the habit now or I think I'll be lost forever.  It started with Facebook, then the Huffington Post, Washington Post, New York Times.  Finally I move on to Twitter, Alternet, Media Matters and others.  I receive newsletters from Newt Gingrich, and updates from the Rush Limbaugh show (I try to get feedback from multiple sources).  I have found that both the right and the left exaggerate their views.  Honestly though, the right-wing has the left beat on the exaggeration issue.  Rush Limbaugh tells outright lies.  Sarah Palin is clueless.

Multiple Sclerosis has made it very hard for me to keep up with the vicious news/non-news cycle, yet I persist.  It's like a drug, I know I need to quit, but it keeps calling me back.  I can't sleep at night.  I turn the lights out planning to sleep, then I roll over and check my Android for more news updates.  Once I finally get to sleep around 4 or 5AM, I don't wake up until mid afternoon.  I am letting my life pass me by while I obsess over current events.

I try to break it up with reading fiction, and playing Scrabble on line.  But I keep getting drawn back to the media world.  The way I see it, I probably have about 15 years left to live.  I really should be embracing these days and stop worrying so much.  I have a wonderful husband that is the epitome of patience.  I have 2 sweet grandchildren that I need to spend more time with.  I have a loving sister and lots of nieces and nephews.