Black and White Thinking Will Ruin Your Life
How accepting that there are grey areas in life can make you a better person
My mother used the adage ‘life is a bitch, and then you die’ and continues to do so. I mean, life can be difficult, especially when we are anxious about the future and when the narrative that surrounds everything seems to make no sense. At least half of what we hear daily in the media creates fear and sounds like the plot of a chaotic b-movie. It’s virtually impossible to tell what’s real and what isn’t.
A killer virus?
A global recession?
Murder hornets?
Exploitative sex islands among the elite?
5 G?
People storming Capitol Hill dressed in fur?
Come on, 2022 — what else do you have for us?
Talking dinosaurs?
Robots among us?
Penguins taking over?
None of these narratives make any sense and it’s hard to tell the difference between conspiracy theories to the actual real news. And humans need to make sense of things.
The media thrives on that — presenting very simplified versions of the truth to get clicks and likes. Complex issues are written about in a black-and-white way with…
