“One problem with reading and/or writing about current affairs is that it creates depression. I haven’t watched news channels since a few years now and I hardly read the newspaper.”

You speak the truth. Your depression and lack of awareness is quite noticeable. Please keep your word on the

“While I admit that posts on current affairs are required sometimes, bloggers need to stop being obsessed with them”

part.

Funny you should say you don’t watch news much. I don’t either anymore. I got tired of the eternal shitstorm, one bad thing after another, mostly ignoring the good things, which frankly far outweigh the bad. Maybe it’s part of my advancing age; I’ve seen it all before. I used to take in everything, wide-eyed, but now if I want to read a good book, I’ll write it; if I want to hear a good song, I’ll sing it. My mind has closed to most sources that don’t tell the whole story in the depth I want, or those I can’t question one-on-one. I’ll generate my own issues in my head. It’s so much better to hunt out the beauty in things, and the good in people, than to have ugliness and evil thrown at you day after day.

One problem with reading and/or writing about current affairs is that it creates depression. I haven’t watched news channels since a few years now and I hardly read the newspaper. Once in a while I do visit some news website though, knowing that my good mood will soon be ruined.

The subcontinent, and Pakistan in particular, being next door to the ongoing chaos in Afghanistan, would for obvious reasons seem to be preoccupied with politics; it’s such a key country, trying to find a comfortable place between long-separated ideologies and define its own identity in its own way. The very real volatility on the ground is a real attention getter for the whole world. You’ve got a lot of things going on, a big ball game, and a big percentage of the world’s on the edge of its seat.