Interest in the world around you

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Today at work, people were talking about some plane that went missing recently (Malaysian Airlines I think) and I had no knowledge of it as that became apparent as the conversation went on and people thought it was strange that I didn't know what was going on in the world but I have no interest in what is going on in the world (and never have). I never listen to the radio or watch TV.

Is there anyone else out there like this?

I'm just like that. I only read news about topics that interest me (technology mostly), and ignore those that don't (politics and entertainment).

Sometimes I will get an "obsession" about something and start reading everything about it, like when I wanted to buy a phone I researched phones for days. You could have asked me anything about phones and their specs, makers, features, ... and I would know the answer, but ask me, for example, "Who are you voting for?", and I'll be like "Huh?? There's an election?"

I haven't watched TV, read a newspaper, or listened to the radio in months. I get the news mostly from video game chat, forum posts, and from hearing people talk about it. (I heard about the Malaysian Airlines from video game chat, but didn't look too much into it.)

I don't care about much news....but they thought this plane was lost, like the one earlier this year in the same region. It seemed eerie that two planes would be "lost" in the same year, in the same region.

But the plane was found--and, unfortunately, people died. Lives were snuffed out.

It's not something, though, that I will cry about. I didn't know these people personally. I would feel sad when I think of this, though.

I really have no interest in the world around me. I don't generally watch the news because it's so negative. If I do watch the news and see a story yhst particularly enrages me, I can go on a rant for days about it.

Politics and current events have been my special interest since I was about nine-years-old. It was the area where I - who was generally thought not to be very bright - could perform as a little professor. Admittedly, there are times I get stressed out about things and stop paying attention for awhile.

Now, sports that is an area where I have never been able to feel the slightest bit of interest. I could not name five current professional athletes if my life depended on it.

Sometimes I do, but not to the point I end up being obsessive about it. Nor keeping up with the updates. Just time to time I check the news, because aside from having online friends from another countries, my relatives, too, are involved outside the country. (I don't want to count how many of my relatives are OFWs)

I check mostly when it involves something a bit serious, something that might add my awareness a bit. Not something like sports news or involving celebrities' updates, they're useless to me.

Planes at Malaysia... Sometimes I'm a bit worried because some of my online friends and possibly relatives lives in Malaysia. I'll just only hope they won't end up in the same fate.

Here at SEA, weather is getting more hostile. And other countries' airports from here, are getting cautious or paranoid about the news.

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I generally despise network news, so I might be behind on stories like this unless I see it on the Facebook feed. I would be more interested though in the Rosetta mission trying to latch a probe onto a comet.

I wonder how many people in the office talk about things like the Rosetta mission around the water cooler? Or Kepler finding a new Exoplanet?

I don't have a tv, and I don't listen to talk radio, and I don't check news websites when I am busy, which is most of the time, so I don't know much of what is going on in the world, and news events always reach me quite late.

I know somebody who would really like to get into Neuroscience. He posts on WrongPlanet. He is Australian.

What would be the easiest path for him to make a living in Neuroscience?

He's a very young person. He still has only a general idea about what he wants to do.

It's true what you said.