The Great Times Should Shine
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The Great Times Should Shine

We cannot spend our lives focusing on the bad.

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As I scroll down Facebook, BuzzFeed, Odyssey, Tumblr and even as I talk my co-workers I'm hearing more and more about Orlando's gay nightclub shooting, fathers day, making summer 2016 a great summer and the UK leaving the EU. I'm also still hearing news about Brock Turner; open letters to him and his family. Well, the club was attacked, victims buried, survivors left to mourn their loved ones, Fathers day was great for many fathers everywhere, sucked for just as many families and children who are fatherless for any reason, this summer is going to be the same as every other summer we've had, and there isn't actually anything we can do about the horrifically short sentence Brock Turner, rapist, was given. Telling the internet what you want will not change what happened. Not to say I am not sympathetic to Orlando's victims and survivors, or outraged at his 6 month sentence, or that I don't want this summer to be amazing. I just do not want to get stuck in tragic events or daydreaming about a summer I will not get to have for many reasons.

Lets get real, we cannot keep focusing on one tragic event until the next one comes along. America, lets stop putting so much focus on 9/11 and the terror attacks that are always going to happen, anywhere and everywhere on Earth. America is not the only place that terrorist attack, and not all terrorists are Muslim or Islamic. Lets stop the stereotyping of everyone in the country.

We should focus on whats happening right here and now, not last week, not last weekend. What happened yesterday? What happened today? Whats happening tomorrow? For me, I worked yesterday and today. I have off tomorrow, so what am I going to do? Probably binge watch Netflix.

When I heard about Orlando, I was devastated and I talked about it. For one day. The shooting did not effect me in anyway other than temporary emotional sadness for Pulse's patrons. I was angry when Turner got such a little sentence, but there isn't anything I can do about that. I was saddened when Father day came around and my father wasn't around. He lives in another state, I messaged him happy fathers day and that was that. On June 22, I found out Anton Yelchin died a few days before. I love Anton Yelchin, but he's dead now, nothing anyone can do.

Okay, now this sounds like I'm just listing how I deal with things, but that's not what I want to do. As a society, we should not let tragic events be the headline of every news article out there, every day. All it does is repeat itself, give society a blue atmosphere and make people depressed. Frankly, it is also quite annoying. I want to hear about the great things, the fantastic events that happen between the tragic ones. I want to hear about a wedding, or a camping trip, or something small, happy and every day event.

As Ryan Reynolds said in Deadpool (2016) "Life is just a shit storm of bad things with a few great commercial breaks in between." Can we focus on those commercial breaks now? I don't enjoy the schedule show.

So, what has happened lately in your life that was amazing?

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