The world is a scary place.
This is the message that mainstream American media sends ourselves and our children each and every day. Images of war, disease, poverty, death, and crime litter the airways. Scandals arise with politicians, actors, musicians, and athletes. On-air debates occur with yelling, screaming, finger-pointing, and other humiliating accusations. Long gone are the days of professional, unbiased news coverage. Each and every news station, from national to local now has a political agenda and station managers and owners now decide for us all what is newsworthy and what is not. We live in a world where these images permeate our brains on a daily basis and leave ourselves and our children wondering if there is any hope left for humanity. Long gone are the days when anything other than dangerous, depressing, and disheartening news fill our airwaves.
That is, until today. I for one refuse to live in a world where my future children will be exposed to this kind of distorted world view. Our world has problems and our children need to be aware of these problems. However, they also need to be made aware of the good and human decency that is abundant all over the globe throughout each and every day of our lives. This is the goal of this blog: To be a global forum to share positive and uplifting news that the mainstream media completely ignores. The possibilities are endless: From soldiers returning from war, to policemen and women doing an exemplary job, to a local school teacher taking her class on a field trip, to a local boy scout helping an old woman cross the street. Our children need to see that there is good in this world and that each and every day normal people like you and I are living in a world where this good occurs.
To start off the blog, I hope to showcase positive news articles from around the globe. However, this blog is not about me, it is about us. Therefore, I encourage all my friends, family, and colleagues to send me stories they feel constitute good news. These stories can even involve yourselves if you feel you have contributed positively to society in some way. I won't use full names, but I will use first names with your permission as a way to show that common people on the street are doing good each and every day. I ultimately hope that this blog will help show our children that people are doing good out there each and every day and that they too have the opportunity to help create a society and a culture based on the idea of helping others. If this blog can help just one small child see the good in people that he or she may have not seen otherwise then I will consider this blog to be a tremendous success.
