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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, my mom loves to start conversations by talking about tragic news events and soliciting your opinion. She'll dive right in on Ukraine or the Israel-Palestinian conflict or a police killing or something. I've told her explicitly that I don't always feel like talking about heavy stuff like that, and I'll just say "can we talk about something lighter?" And then she'll get mad and accuse me of ignoring tragedy in the world. I read the news, I'm well informed, but what the heck is the point of my mom and I spending 30 minutes talking about how sad war is. We're not solving anything, we're just bumming ourselves out. I make sure I know what's going on before I vote, give money to a cause, or speak out on a controversial subject (which I rarely do because most of the time I don't think my voice is really needed). But I don't sit around giving myself an existential crisis by dwelling on sad stuff. I have a job and kids and a mortgage.

I think old people do this because they DON'T have enough stuff to occupy their time and they are looking for meaning or truth in these stories. I've told my mom that if this stuff upsets her, she should find a way to get involved -- volunteer with an organization that helps war refugees or something. But she won't. She just wants to talk about it and say "I don't know what the world is coming to, it's so sad" and for me to parrot that. No thank you. I do not have the bandwidth for whatever that is.[/quote]

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