Good News or Not

"Esta tudo bem - it's alright"

NBC Nightly News aired a news segment for quite some time called "What Works." It was their way of countering the majority of news that tends to focus on the bad news. Here we had an attempt to show what is good in life. The problem is that life is so full of news that seems to contradict the fact that a lot of good does exist in everyday life.

News programs, radio talk shows, the deluge of newspapers and internet opinions, blogs and every conceivable source of information possible. The vast majority of them talk only of the bad things, the disagreements or the horrible state of life. Is there nothing good that actually happens on a daily basis?

Sure there is, but good news does not sell and most of those organizations do not exist by losing money. They sell a product which caters to what the buying public wants. Stories of puppy dog rescues and new flower gardens do not sell advertising space. We as the 'buying public' are the ones that ultimately dictate what gets shown or printed.

I'm not here to declare that it has to change.

What I am here to declare is that the important thing to understand is that life is actually pretty good. There is goodness in our life and not everything is bad out there. You can find and witness that goodness does happen.

If you read or watch too much of the bad, it will jade your opinion of society in general. So try to counter it once in a while with good news. Search for the good in what seems an endless string of bad.

"Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed." - William Saroyan

Stay inspired my friends.