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Come home to reports of Mumbai going up in flames; my thoughts go out to anyone who might have friends or family involved. CNN updates are here.
It drives me kind of crazy to sit in front of the television or the computer pressing refresh and wondering how on earth the world seems to pass by so easily if you go away for 48 hours. Maybe it's just the country I live in, but when I watch live reporting and people trying to sift facts from fiction and it occurs to me how dangerously peripheral my knowledge of the real world is - how much do I know? All I know is stuff from whatever I read, whichever newspapers I follow, my proximity to a device with an internet connection. It would take just one grid failure to turn me into a deaf-mute. Shouldn't I be in better tune with my world, the people in it and the things that happen than this?
I remember wanting to be a reporter when I was a kid; that or an anchor or a writer or a journalist. This place is a good place to get those kinds of dreams squashed, and in a hurry. But it's been less than a week since I finally tossed 12 years of institutional education on a backburner, and already I feel more like a human being than I've felt for -- more than half my life?
Maybe I should be braver than this, and reach out more.
It drives me kind of crazy to sit in front of the television or the computer pressing refresh and wondering how on earth the world seems to pass by so easily if you go away for 48 hours. Maybe it's just the country I live in, but when I watch live reporting and people trying to sift facts from fiction and it occurs to me how dangerously peripheral my knowledge of the real world is - how much do I know? All I know is stuff from whatever I read, whichever newspapers I follow, my proximity to a device with an internet connection. It would take just one grid failure to turn me into a deaf-mute. Shouldn't I be in better tune with my world, the people in it and the things that happen than this?
I remember wanting to be a reporter when I was a kid; that or an anchor or a writer or a journalist. This place is a good place to get those kinds of dreams squashed, and in a hurry. But it's been less than a week since I finally tossed 12 years of institutional education on a backburner, and already I feel more like a human being than I've felt for -- more than half my life?
Maybe I should be braver than this, and reach out more.
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If you can do it, don't hesitate. You'll be challenged, but the experience and the insight you gain is totally worth it ♥