Saturday, January 26, 2008

Life in the rest of the world

In journalism school, they teach that proximity is one of the elements that makes a story newsworthy.

Our own problems naturally are closer to us than the problems of others, and therefore they may seem larger and more immediate.

It's important, I think, to sometimes step away from our own day-to-day problems which seem so dark and looming and take some time to empathize with the problems of others.

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