These last years, listening to the news has become a strange competition of finding the most overwhelming or extraordinary word to describe events, situations, or how people experience them.

It is understandable.

However, it is a disservice to the story.

Focusing on the extraordinary keeps things abstract.

In a situation in which it is all about the way people feel, it reflects the inability to experience as well as to describe what is happening.

It doesn’t convey the story.