10.30.09
A Wierd World with Good Stuff
It’s a weird world when you have kids shooting other kids or standing around watching as kids beat another to death…or spend a couple hours gang raping a 15 year…and do nothing. So about the time you think all kids might be like that…or at least the ones in the news…along comes
Abby Sunderland, 16, obtains boat for her around-the-world solo journey
…and your faith is once again is renewed.
Well temporarily anyway.
One has to be pretty thick skinned about what you read in the news and the thicker the skin and the more cynical one becomes the less likely that one can see or hear the “good stuff” like the story about Abby and Jessica. Sometimes you have to find a crack in the thick skin to let good stuff in.
There are kids out there who have big dreams and who charge forth to make it happen…and there are kids who don’t think much and act out in bizarre ways. I just think it’s too bad that the news folk tend to give us the negative rather than the postive.
I wouldn’t want my “news” to be sugar coated…I’m diabetic…but a little good news from time to time would be nice.