Last week 2 news stories caught my attention, that were just…sickening. I’m struggling to truly put into words the emotions that were stirred by the events.
I’m not going to share any pictures or links to the events, I don’t want to give the perpetrators any notoriety.
So very briefly, on Monday a video was share which showed people burning an effigy of the Grenfell Tower with cut outs of people trapped inside their flats. Then on Friday I watched a news report which showed how a school for people with learning disabilities had been vandalised. The criminals had destroyed toys, the minibuses, graffitied offensive language across the playground – you get the picture.
Your moral compass is seriously off point if you carried out these crimes or thought them funny, especially to target a place where vulnerable children feel safe, secure and happy.
The world is struggling, hate crime is on the rise – especially towards disabled people, racists are more bold and confident to spread their disgusting ideologies, our democracy is under threat from foreign interference and in Britain it looks like we’re are about to voluntarily distance ourselves from our neighbours and make ourselves poorer.
It’s more important than ever to remind ourselves that the world is actually an amazing place and that we are amazing. The two stories I mentioned, 99.999% of people will have found it sickening (no scientific evidence to back this up so don’t quote me)! People were asking, “what can I do to help the school and the children”?As it turned out, a group of volunteers had already come together to repair the damage. When tragedies like Grenfell occur or terrorists attack our way of life people come together, people support each other, the vast majority of us turn to love and compassion not hate or ignorance. We are reminded just how heroic our emergency services are.
It’s so easy to find bad news, we are conditioned to live in fear. Fear sells newspapers, fear sells full stop. If we live in fear we are more likely to spend money on things that we don’t necessarily need but will make us feel a bit better about ourselves and the world.
Good news is harder to find, but it’s there, all around us. Every day millions of people will do something kind. Communities will come together, people will give up their time to help others, a stranger will have done something today to save somebody’s life – and they might not even realise it. You are amazing, always remember that. Never let fear or hate win. Share good news, carry out random acts of kindness, make somebody smile.
As I started with bad news stories, it’s only fair that I redress that and share some stories of kindness and positivity. But first, I want to share a clip that always make me smile and cheers me up!
Now for the good news;
Let’s keep this going. Feel free to share your good news stories, your random acts of kindness.
Spread the love! x
It is sad that the media focus on the bad news rather than the good news. It’s so important to share good news, I totally agree 🙂 Random acts of kindness is always great, even if it’s just that you opened a door for someone who had a pushchair!
Chloe xx
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Absolutely! X
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Sending love and light across the world ✨❤️
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Thank you, we need some right now!! C
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I always find that negative stories, spread like wildfires, but the positive ones don’t so much. And it is all too easy to think the world is negative, when it isn’t all like that. I like your redressing of the balance xx
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Thank you – today is kindness day. Every day should be really! x
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Every day should be kindness day, kindness above everything xx
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This is such a good post, James and I totally agree with everything you’ve said. Bad news is everywhere – we can’t get away from it. And we shouldn’t pull the wool over our eyes but for the sake of our own mental health and wellbeing, sometimes we need to cut ourselves off from it. It’s such a shame that good news isn’t spread as widely. I don’t have any particularly good news stories myself right now but I’m feeling quite happy at the moment and the Starlight Bloggers Facebook group is making me really happy because of how lovely and supportive everyone is being to each other! You’ve definitely got to take the little things sometimes and find the happiness and the goodness in the world x
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You’ve done a wonderful thing, brought strangers together to support each other and spread the love. Well done! You’re right in saying we need to switch off every so often and go offline now and again. Easier said than done though! x
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