Let's Focus on the Positive

Keeping up with the mainstream news online is a habit I wish to break. I mindlessly log onto to Google News and Boston.com and am usually met with horrible stories about the seemingly endless turmoil in the Middle East; mothers killing their babies; children being kidnapped, raped and murdered; students killing their classmates and professors; so-called celebrities spewing words of hate or displaying utter disregard for the lives of others; global warming and the obesity epidemic, etc. The list is sadly long. A part of me wants to keep informed but another part of me wishes I could forget all the things I have read that display the worst of humanity.

A quick search online lead me to this website. It's a site that promises "Real News. Compelling Stories. Always Positive." And that's what we need: a little distraction from all the negative news we see on a daily basis - from TV, the internet, even the free newspapers that are scattered on the T each workday morning. We need some happy news to remind us that humanity is not evil undiluted. We need to counterbalance all the sad news with stories of people who have made positive contributions to society, of people helping strangers, of children being saved, loved and protected. I'm tired of news that causes me to worry for the future of humanity; bring on the news that gives me hope of its survival.