# “The evils of rapid diffusion of news” by C.S. Lewis

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“It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world
come to us every morning.

I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can
help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills
which he cannot help. (This may even become an escape from the works of charity 
we really can do to those we know).

A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being 
worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is.

We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing
it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our
sleep, our jokes, and the birds song and the frosty sunrise.

As about the distant, so about the future. It is very dark: but there’s usually 
light enough for the next step or so.

Pray for me always.

Yours,

C.S. Lewis”

–C.S. Lewis, [_**The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis: Books, Broadcasts, and the War 1931-1949**_](https://link.amazon/B03DzAz0T),
ed. Walter Hooper, **[vol. 2](https://link.amazon/B03DzAz0T) **(New York: HarperCollins;
HarperSanFrancisco, 2004–2007), 2: 747-748.

[⌊The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis Volume 2⌉⌊The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis
Volume 2⌉[

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