It’s hard to sleep well if you know the details.

To see one’s world with open eyes is to see its dark and destructive side.
And to be frustrated by an inability to mitigate pain and sorrow.
When I consider the news of the day I often feel a sense of anguish.
I’m not directly responsible for what’s happening.
I can’t do anything about it.
But still, I know.
And take what I know into the darkness of night with me.
There’s good reason to clinch one’s jaw, grind and gnash one’s teeth.
I don’t know about the afterlife, but there is hell enough on earth.
It’s hard to sleep well if you know the details.

-Robert Fulghum