“Attention, attention! Another tragedy has occurred
somewhere in the world!”
Now, you will never actually see a news heading like this.
You will never see a newspaper proclaiming that just another in a long stream
of horrible things has occurred. But, think about it. How many times out of ten
are major news headings something good? How many times is the front page
splattered with terrible, awful things?
As I was flipping through articles to write my blog on for
this week I realized that most of the titles I was scanning through were
proclaiming horrible events in some place or another. A murder, a bombing, a
boat capsizing. Oh, and the entire deal with the Germanwings flight that
recently crashed. It’s just one after another after another after another. Will
it never end? There’s another article about Isis. I’m sure we’ll be hearing
about them until the sun explodes.
Wait, wait, this one has promise. Oh, this is just boring.
The entire scroll bar of the New York Times World News
section is filled with tragedy to the brim. Just once I’d like to see a nice,
non-tragic story that isn’t completely boring. I mean, it’s so exciting reading
about how two countries have reached a tax deal, or some other trivial tidbit,
but I’d love a good story. A happy, enjoyable story where no one dies, no
boring politics are involved, and everybody walks away happy and fulfilled with
life. Even upon reading an article that seemed to have a lot of potential I was
disappointed to discover it was not a happy tale, but a happy event disguising
the boring undercarriage.
Well, I suppose I shall move on to another news site and
another day to wait out my happy articles. What’s that saying? Oh yeah, misery
loves company.
