- Can you believe that Donald Trump is our President?
- The Russians are hacking like crazy.
- The NSA is collecting data about me.
- There is no inflation, so they say — somebody forgot to tell my supermarket.
- The Knicks (Lakers, Celtics – take your pick) stink!
- It is way too cold in New England.
- It is way too hot in Georgia.
- There are Democrats, and then there are Republicans
- My guppy died.
- My neighbor’s lawn has fewer weeds
- My son does not do his homework.
- My daughter’s room looks like an explosion at a clothing manufacturers.
- This guy just took my parking spot?!
- Can you believe that Donald Trump is our President?
Is there no end to the bad news? It has been proven without a doubt that people pay much more attention to bad news than good news. When the bad news is about others, that makes us feel good. When the bad news involves ourselves, we cry out to the world to share our pain – “don’t you get it, I am hurting!”.
Of course, there is much good news in our lives these days, and we often use the analogy of a glass half filled with something good (German beer?) to draw a dividing line between optimists and pessimists. To the optimist, the glass is half full, to the pessimist it is half empty.
In my view, that analogy misses the boat. The fact that there is something in it, proves that indeed there is a glass. Be grateful that there is a glass, after all the alternative is ……… well, nothing. Thank God for the glass!
