I've spent unhealthy amount of my limited free time on following left-leaning news about this very recent elections in the US. I regularly watch youtube for content about various controversies and politics of USA and for about 3 months I did it daily. I was flabbergasted to no end why people like Donald Trump and want him one more time to say all those weird stuff all the day, for four more years. It was so exhausted but I couldn't look away. Even writing about this topic is exhausting as everything was said a million times, but nothing changes.
I'm continuing the previous unfinished article, I wanted to write all of this at once in my first attempt, but I got lazy, unfocused and just sad. At this very moment I'm actually a bit more hopeful (not for long for sure) and I'm not talking about all the crazy stuff that is happening around a certain Luigi fella, up in the USA. The only reason why I feel a bit better right now is because I got a random recommendation of a contemporary jazzy arabic song that now I've got on the loop. Stuff like this solidifies my belief that there is an entire universe of nice things coming from cultures all around the world.
And that's supposed to be the theme of the previous article with that weird title about misery and fun. The globalization means that we hear a ton of worrying stuff from all around the world, but at the same time we can easily find some nice snippets of seemingly foreign cultures that we can enjoy. I know that if you like anime and manga (and you're not from Japan) it technically counts as the appreciation of foreign stuff, but I wish you all make an experiment, pick some random country that doesn't speak English and that it's not yours (or actually yours if you neglect what comes out locally, it can be surprising if you dig a bit deeper), and try to find at least one nice song, fun fact, or an unexpected meme (German memes are showing up in my instagram feed every time I scroll at least 10 minutes, I verstehen every tenth word). Try it, it's nice! Brought to you by Kazdoura - artist from Syria, recording from Canada, that I stumbled upon just today.