Part of growing up is learning what you can safely live without. Know what you need to know, of course, but just as important especially in today's overly stimulating and annoying world is knowing what you can live without.
I learned yrs ago that I can live without television, and by television I mean TV shows. The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Rockford Files are long gone, and after TV entertainment like that nothing ever came along to fill the void.
Another thing that I can avoid is trying to keep up with everything that is going on in the world. I have discovered that I don't need to know "everything." What a relief!
My interest are more refined, so if something is not in my intellectual bandwidth, I've learned to let it go. At the same time, I like to think I am as intellectually curious as I've always been.
Quiet times to think and reflect, read books, interesting conversations, contemplation of every short, yes, there things I could never live without.
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