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This week: Interesting Times Edited by: Kitti the Red-Nosed Feline  
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We live in interesting times. It would be easier if the world were more boring and predictable.
Especially in these times your voice matters. This week's Drama Newsletter explains why.
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We live in interesting times. When I was younger, I would have thought that to be a good thing. Who yearns for the boring? Who doesn’t want some adventure in their life? Nothing too scary or unsettling, of course – we’ve got fiction to fulfill those needs in a safe and secure manner – but something different. Something exciting. Something interesting.
Well, we’ve got a whole lot of interesting going on. I can’t count the amount of times over the past years that I’ve read about unprecedented events, or events that haven’t happened in a hundred years or more. We’ve been through financial crises, a pandemic, and there are military conflicts in several parts of the world. Politics is messy, politicians often far from the best that humanity has to offer. Our air quality’s lacking, our soil contaminated, our rivers and oceans polluted. Whenever I turn on the news it’s a whole lot of bad, because good apparently doesn’t sell. And there is so much news to read and watch...
I’m not as young as I used to be, so I grew up without access to 24/7 news. That may have been a blessing. There are news stories now wherever we go. Television, radio, printed media, podcasts, vlogs, social media… it’s all too easy to get overwhelmed by it. I’ve been guilty of so-called doomscrolling – scrolling/browsing through news story after news story, and it’s mostly negative. When you absorb a large amount of negative news on a regular basis it has a less-than-pleasant influence on your mental state. It affects your perception of the world, and the people in it. It may be interesting to know what’s going on, but there’s an information overload with little balance and plenty of editorial twists in one direction or another. I don’t think it’s very healthy to expose ourselves to such a high amount of media content day after day.
That doesn’t mean that it’s not good to be connected. The Internet has had a positive impact, too. Few of us can travel around the globe meeting people from various nations, and that makes it easy to paint an incorrect picture of different cultures. On here, though, we all of us can come together and see that we’re not that different. You are not some to-be-feared unknown, and I am not some to-be-feared unknown. We have similar hopes and dreams and I figure the vast majority wants as peaceful and pleasant a life as possible.
It doesn’t take much experience to learn that boring and predictable is good. At least when it comes to global and national events. I want politics to be boring, because when it gets interesting people tend to suffer. I want the economy to be stable, I want nations to get along and cooperate nicely when they need to. I want the weather to play nice, too – not too hot, nor too cold. Give me boring any day. I can make my own excitement.
Of course, a part of it’s in our hands. It matters who we vote for, even if the choices aren’t great. It matters what we consume. It matters what we, as writers, put out into the world.
You may not believe that you have a lot of influence putting your work here on this writing website, but your readers invest their time and energy in what you have to say and it matters to them if you make it worth their while. They may have needed that smile, or that tear. That happy ending or big realisation. That food for thought that you offer, or a well-needed escape from reality. I know I seek out different content at different moments, according to my own needs – I figure most people do. That’s why we need to share our stories, both fictional and true. My voice matters. Your voice matters. It’s important to remember that.
Whether you write poetry or stories, novels or articles – whatever your chosen writing journey – your words make a difference. Thank you for sharing them with us. You’re helping us find our way through these interesting times.
Kitti the Red-Nosed Feline
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