Never underestimate the goodness...

Truly. Sometimes I think we underestimate the goodness that is out there - the News paints such a bleak picture. I don’t watch the News anymore, I stopped watching it about 10 years ago and I think it’s made me a happier person…truly. :) Of course what we see on the News is rarely news - it’s old, wrapped up with a giant bow or something sad turned into an extreme. When I open Firefox I see headlines that completely turn me off - I know it’s just a big, shiny new twist they’ve put on something. They sensationalize, spectacularize, polarize, exaggerate and simply make crap up. Worst of all, news writers don’t consider the people they are hurting with their ‘disinformation’. Then again, it’s probably not the news writers, it’s what they’re told to do (and not do)…

So, turn off the news and listen to people around you:

This simple statement says so much. We never know the whole story - how can we? Everybody is fighting their own battle in one way or another, plus we only ever know one side of a story, and how many sides are there…? I think about my co-workers, my friends, my family. Each has something going on that is theirs. It’s private and only revealed to a select group of people - or maybe no one… A snapshot of my day includes people with family members who are struggling for their life because of cancer, family members with addiction problems, divorce, suicides and family members with children who have been very badly injured. All these people are amazingly kind. You would never know they have all these struggles going on behind the scenes - they still ask me how I’m doing. It never ceases to amaze me and touch me. People are still kind and caring - it’s the News that would like you to believe otherwise.

So think about it, and think what a smile might just do to someone’s day - be kind, always. Words to live by.