This just pulled my attention... even it was quite some weeks ago but no less relevant.
KayM wrote:[...] You are NOT going to read or hear or see about the billions of people that spends their days living and loving and being helpful and compassionate. That is not going to sell newspapers or draw viewers or generate advertising income.
Acknowledge that small percentage of the world that is 'wrong', but do not concentrate on it and let it screw your view of our wonderful world. Feel compassion for the victims of these people, and pray for them if it is your inclination, then take some time to look around you find find those quiet miracles of humanity around you. They are there, and there are more of them than you think.
Acknowledge those too. Those people who is RIGHT. The firefighters, the nurses, the care workers. The neighbour who goes to the store for the old lady next door. The young man opening a door for the woman dealing with her children at a store. So many small examples.
Look for them, and then let THAT influence your world view.
How very true. We (my family and some friends) actually made a group chat in WhatsApp and every day we are writing one or a few phrases of what we are grateful for and why. We really only write our 'appreciation of the day' there and keep all other blahblah to personal chats. And we are reading it like our very own newspaper every day and we do that since over 1 year!
This is how we actually hear from all these beautiful, nice, daily things that are happening all around us and appreciate even more of them.
It works. It really does.