Its the experience stupid

Subject: It's the experience, stupid.

One of the concerns I have is the huge increase in information we receive daily. Normally one would think this a good thing since information means knowledge and knowledge allows one to make better decisions. The trouble is that as human beings we are prone to becoming over excited, or over concerned when we learn of some event, perhaps a weather storm coming our way or concern about a disease which is statistically becoming more common and so we begin to evaluate our chances of catching it.
The old adage "Ignorance is bliss" has long ceased to apply since with 24/7 news and the Internet continually feeding us stuff, with the ubiquitous 'ping' to announce yet another message, we are swamped with items of news and advice to both consider or reject but which lives in our consciousness for a while and to some extent, destabilises our mental surety.
It's not only wars and pandemics or even the horror of violence on our streets,  it's the drip drip sense of insecurity that you are not looking or eating properly, not drinking enough water not exercising and so on. Link this to your poor performance as a property owner or the comparisons you are forced to make with others, that you don't take enough holidays or visit exotic places, is it any wonder we feel left out.
It's this continual audit you are forced to make because of the information made available of how others live or how you yourself are co-opted to live.
It's the minutiae of our lives which is being invaded, the more we know, the more we realise we don't have and therefore have to rationalise our reasons for not having and perhaps even more pertinent,  not wanting those things.
If our diet has to be so convoluted by the latest news about the good and bad effect of the food we put in our mouths doesn't this information, whilst important on a micro level has the destabilising effect of putting us down by informing us that what we did in the past was bad.

People who eat burgers every day or drink alcohol excessively know it's not good for them but they often do it to offset something else In their lives which is troubling them more. The clinical advantages of a vegan diet has weighed against it the somewhat unappetising lack of taste or smell, the salad-junky forks in platefuls of leaves and vegetables without the delicious smell of fish and chips.
Life is a balance between doing what is good for us and a little of what is bad. When the scales swing in favour of the bad you must take note but all that information about the minutiae of our lives seems to me to miss the point, that life is a variable, both up and down, a roller coaster experience which all the good advice seems to miss what it's all about. The experience.