Chatter

There is so much extra chatter in life and it's all driving me nuts.  Every direction I turn is some irrelevant news or headline that is cluttering my life.  After a restless night of sleep (mainly b/c of the 3 month old sleeping next to me) I wake up, turn on the TV to hear the weather and before I can find out whether to send Cade to school in pants or shorts I've heard about Arnold's baby momma, Charlie Sheen's goddess, James Frey's lie to Oprah 5 years ago, whether men or women look better with gray hair, Ivy Tech's "how to meet your perfect mate" class (seriously??), and that's just the beginning!  After doing the laundry, dishes and sweeping the floor I realize it's only 830am.  So I decide to eat breakfast and scroll through Facebook.  Then I find out how the end of the world is coming via zombies and that Evansville Indiana is the fattest city in America.  Not only do we get to read the articles but we also get to read everyone discussing the articles.  The comment I would have liked to leave would have been "stop complaining about it, get off FB and take a walk!"  That of course was the one time I held my tongue.  The adrenaline I've been running on for the past 3 months has worn off and the constant influx of crap to my brain doesn't help the situation.  There's enough noise in everyday life.  Kids screaming, babies crying, dogs barking, phones ringing, doctors saying this or that, therapists saying this or that, ENOUGH!  I want to shut it all off and just be quiet.  The Bible says "Be still and know that I am God" (not sure exactly where but it's there), I want to do just that.  How can I figure out where I am in life if there's constant outside noise?  I can't even tell if my thoughts are MY thoughts or something I heard somewhere.  Technology is an awesome thing and I'm not saying we should shut out all technology but the "information age" can wear on a person's sanity.  Shut off the news and listen to music, turn off Facebook and read a REAL book (gasp, for all you non-book readers), turn off the video games and go for a walk.  De-clutter and come back to center.