I’m really tired of the news lately. I don’t want to be misunderstood that this stuff isn’t important because it really is. But does the news need to dwell in these tragedies? I challenge you to try to think about the good things on the news lately. It’s horrible that so many people died in Orlando and this fixation on this excuse for a presidential race is no better.
The average person probably spends about an hour everyday listening or reading to the news whether it’s on the television, the newspaper or on your phone. I’m sorry but with all this negativity between Trump and Hilary, the shooting in Orlando, and a rapist getting a lenient sentence, I think we need to change it up. There’s enough bad in the world, there always has been. Spend just a few minutes looking at all the good news that’s happened lately.
Go online, literally search up, “good things that happened in 2016” and I’ll wager that most people didn’t know almost any of the things you’d find. Did you know that Disney donated $1 million to help the people affected in Orlando? How about that some of the latest treatments has increasing promise in curing Multiple Sclerosis or how the survival rate of Advanced Melanoma Skin Cancer has jumped from 1% to 40%? Maybe you heard about the Chicago Police Officers who escorted young girls without fathers to a father-daughter dance?
When someone is going through something horrible, isn’t one of the biggest advices they receive not to dwell on the negativity? When someone loses a loved one, we tell them, “think about the good times.” Well why aren’t we doing that now? We are so caught up in these horrible news updates that for the last month, I didn’t even think there was anything good going on in the world. I assumed the world was just falling into a deep hole of sadness and evil and it was never going to get out, but that isn’t true. If you’re like me and you just hate all the bad news, I strongly encourage looking up the good news that’s happening lately. You won’t be disappointed.
