When I was undergraduate student I was spending 2-3 hours a day consuming politics in a wider sense. Of course this included daily news but also longer magazine

When I was undergraduate student I was spending 2-3 hours a day consuming politics in a wider sense. Of course this included daily news but also longer magazine articles and documentaries. Maybe that's just me but oftentimes when I see how people have much more bad lives than I do, I don't feel so bad anymore. Oh and daily news is often presented in a very boring way, you don't have that so much with in-depth articles or even books about politics, those are sometimes even written in an ironic way. (Stating the obvious but probably it also makes sense not to read too many right wing sources with an aggressive sentiment - although as a proper democrat one should cross read. Still, reading a little tabloid stuff can be really funny btw.)