Breaking news was breaking me

I checked breaking news every ten minutes for a month. Here's what happened. My attention span got shorter than the headlines themselves. Nobody talks about this. You're not informed, you're addicted to the refresh button. Every notification felt like something I needed. It wasn't. It was noise wearing a costume. Here's the mistake most people make. They treat every update like a test they'll fail if they miss it. But information without action is just anxiety with extra steps. I cut checks to twice a day. Focus came back. Sleep got deeper. Turns out the news was never breaking. I was.