Quitting the News!!!

[Marilyn]

Okay, I don't know about y'all, but I've decided to quit reading the news. I think it's negatively affecting my perspective on life. It's just too depressing!!!!!! Husband's killing wives, wives killing husbands, children killing parents, husband killing woman he's having children with outside of his marriage. Paris Hilton getting $1,000,000 for first interview out of prison. Give me a break. A naughty woman who will inherit the Hilton hotel fortune gets a mil for an interview. Please!!!!!! Enough is enough!!!!!! Who cares if Rosy hosts Price is Right any way??????

How about some good new for a change?????? Surely something good happened in the world today that is worth reporting.

[Gina]

Marilyn, its funny you mentioned this, I was thinking the same earlier. I was reading the front page of the NY post that my husband brings home from Manhattan. It showed a firefighter of 23 yrs. old who fell to his death yesterday 4 stories down. I cried reading the article . He was a young boy .What a tradegy and the fire was not even a life threatning one. My heart goes out to this firefighters family. Now that I ventured off the thread, Marilyn I can't stand hearing the news or reading the paper. We need to hear about good things for a change.

[Tink]

I've been looking at GOOD NEWS sites for quite some time. If you'd like to check some out, here ya go!

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

http://www.goodnewsdaily.com/?gclid=...FSeXIwod-2IB8w

http://www.goodnewsnow.com/?gclid=CO...FSZhIgodjh-O9w

[Janet]

I know what you mean Marilyn..(by the way...love your new pic in the avatar!!) It's hard to practice "the Secret" with all the horrible things going on around us. Some are not too horrible, but really unfair.

When I get upset about things going on in the world, the first thing I do is pray and be thankful for what I really have. In recent past, that in itself has been a chore, but this week alone, tired, frustrated, sad, happy....the whole bit, makes me appreciate my little world all the more. No matter what is going on in the big world.

[judy]

I don't read the paper, but I do find that I want to watch the news once/day just to know if anything important is happening. I think I've become immune to people like Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan. I actually feel sorry for them. Their parents didn't do right by them.

That story about the fireman is heartbreaking!

[DianaB]

I know what you mean about the news. For one I'm sick of hearing about movie stars and all of their problems!!! Paris and Lindsay need to grow up and live in the real world. After seeing how a lot of the child actors turn out I would never want my child to grow up in that atmosphere.

I only read the news on the internet and our local paper (which is VERY small town). There are sooo many stories on the internet concerning killing that it does get very sad. Maybe we should start posting happy news on here and share it with each other.

BTW-Marilyn, I like your new avatar. It sure shows that you and your daughter look alot alike.

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by Tink

I've been looking at GOOD NEWS sites for quite some time. If you'd like to check some out, here ya go!

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

http://www.goodnewsdaily.com/?gclid=...FSeXIwod-2IB8w

http://www.goodnewsnow.com/?gclid=CO...FSZhIgodjh-O9w

Thank you, Tink!! I needed that!!

So sad about the young firefighter. I guess we need to know some of this stuff, but it just get's old and there is so much negative in the normal news.

Janet, thanks for the encouragement!! I do count my blessings, but the news is still so depressing. To know that so many people out there are suffering and we can't help them, just have to do what we can where we are.