Good News

I love it when I get good news. Someone I know is getting married, or having a child, or buying a new home, or graduating, receiving an award--just all kinds of good news. I am assuming that most people would feel the same way. Good news generally brings a smile to your face. Bad news on the other hand, is just that--bad. It doesn't make me happy. It doesn't make me smile. It can make me hurt, sad, cry, be fearful. But, bad news exists. And the real bad news is, that the media (in all forms) profits from delivering bad news from us everyday, all day long.

Most of the bad news that is reported on TV and radio, in the newspapers and magazines and on the Internet we can't do anything about anyway--except be saddened or fearful. I don't need to know about every murder and every detail of it, or every psycho that shoots up a school or mall or restaurant, or robbery, or hollywood scandal or even all the news of the bad economy. And yet, that's what we get fed and people are eating it up.



Not me. I'm tired of it. I want the good news. I want to read more stories like the one about Susan Boyle, the Britain's Got Talent phenomenon, or the guy who gave his entire lottery winnings to his church or the heroic actions of a bystander in a crisis. They make me cry too, but tears of joy and utter amazement at the goodness of people. Good news happens every day all day long too. Why don't we get to read or hear more about it. I'm going to make a point of finding it and reporting it here on my blog.



I want to give people something to smile about every day.



Be the change...