I talked to my parents yesterday. For the first time in three weeks, they went out and took a walk together. I felt slightly relieved for them after all these stressful days. This makes me think of SARS in 2003 when I was still a middle school student in Beijing. At the time, my parents just bought me my first computer. WeChat and other social media didn’t exist yet. People were still used to reading the newspaper and watching TV to get information. The situation was also scary, but the limited amount of information gave me the impression of clarity, control and rationality. This time, I have much more access to information, online and offline, official and personal, in Chinese, English and French. I watched videos, listened to Podcast and read Tweets. I was reading and thinking and talking about the coronavirus nonstop. I felt the point of the saturation of my brain as I was drowned by the giant waves of information coming from all directions. It felt as if other things in the world stopped existing or lost their importance. So I stopped burying my face in my phone and started doing other things. It feels better. Lack of information leads me to ignorance. Overdosed information leads me to anxiety. I’m still learning to navigate and find the right balance. How do you navigate through the information in time like this (or in general)? #informationoverload #modernworldproblems #anxiety #coronavirus #covid19 #emotionalbalance #sliceoflife #tinyeyescomics (at Beijing, China) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8wCLAjiNfH/?igshid=9xcepit433qk
