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Everyone asks me

Everyone asks me

A lot of people complain about the information garbage that surrounds them - all sorts of rumours and gossip that interfere with their lives and throw them off balance. But few people ask themselves: why does all this junk reach out to them?

 

Garbage chute

If you are a TV or radio receiver that people turn to in search of news, it would be quite possible to explain why everyone turns to you, poses questions to you and waits for your reaction and comment.

But, most likely, this is not the case, but rather the peculiarities of your character which so kindly accepts and reacts to all the junk that it is happily forwarded to you time after time.

Perhaps you like it and feel as though you are the centre of everyone’s attention, although you are actually on top of a mountain of garbage. Do not act as a garbage chute. Focus on really important things, and you will not care about the garbage.

 

Environment

Who are these people who find it necessary to send you garbage? Do your neighbors do the same and bring all the garbage that has accumulated in their homes to your door? Obviously, the people you interact with are not the first passers-by on the street, but accept the surroundings that have formed over many years. Perhaps you should take a closer look at them and finally realise that the reason for your complaints about information garbage is these very people from your inner circle who have become voluntary conduits of rumours and gossip.

 

No filters

Perhaps the problem also lies in your ubiquitous curiosity. You are subscribed to all the necessary and unnecessary information resources and read everything that comes out of pen or keyboard. As a result, there is no filtering and your head becomes a latrine for information garbage.

I must admit that we treat food with much more attention and do not eat expired products and products that are incompatible with each other.

This is a good experience. All that remains is to learn how to use it when consuming ‘information food’, which quite often causes spiritual poisoning and headaches.

 

Robert Kurbanov

As-Salam correspondent

2026-07-01 (Muharram 1448) №7.


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