1094 Corrosion on Your Soul

It’s an age-old question: is it better not to know? Would your relationship be better, would your job be more fulfilling, would your life have more meaning if you knew everything concerning them? The answer is a resounding no! Some things you don’t need and don’t want to hear. Knowing too much about some things is corrosive, so why would knowing too much about things that don’t directly affect you be any different? Most news has no impact on your life: if you didn’t know, it wouldn’t make any difference. The news intends to rile people up and make them angry; newscasters wouldn’t do it that way if their audience didn’t get a perverse pleasure out of it, but perversity is destructive & counterproductive, and you should avoid it at all costs. Conversely, additional knowledge is often extremely enlightening & useful; some things we do want to hear about because they brighten our soul. You’ll know the difference because knowledge worth gaining doesn’t leave corrosion on your soul.