The world seems worse online than it feels on your actual street. Check your street.

What reaches you online is selected for being alarming, because alarming is what gets passed along. The resulting picture is accurate about the worst things and silent about everything ordinary. Your street has no such filter on it. Mostly it is people going to work, holding doors and getting on with things, and that is also the world.

After a bad scroll this week, go and look at your street for ten minutes. Let what you see sit alongside the news rather than replacing it.