news.

i am so selfish.
i read the news, and the happenings arnd the world only when my world is crumbling.

i could pretend that reading the news, abt how a woman had an operation to get a pencil out of her head; how the south asian floods are receding but fears remain; and how 19 iraqi children just died, remind me constantly that what i face aren't nearly as fatal nor threatening as someone else in another part of the world. that my problems are miniscule.

but that would be lying.
n i need to stop lying to myself.

cos tonight, i read the news just so that i could escape from my life.