I Want to Hear Good News

[The song for this post is Good News by Something Corporate.] 

In recent years watching the news, reading the news, anything with the news, has caused me greater anxiety than ever before. 

I’m sure when I was younger it didn’t hit me as much because I was a child. Even as a young adult I probably didn’t know as much as I should have about what was going on around me. I was in college. I was self absorbed. I know this. 

It wasn’t until my last year of college when I voted in my first presidential election that I really took in everything going on around me. 

I began to read the news daily, watch the news, stay informed. 

Now, as a professional, I do the same but I have to tell you it wasn’t until approximately 4-5 years ago that I really began to feel anxious watching and reading the news. 

Everything has become so dark, so glass half full, so sensationalized. It all seems like the world is ending. 

Don’t get me wrong, in many ways we’ve made many poor choices as a society which has caused certain things to go in a direction that affects the generations ahead of us but in many ways regardless of what is going on in the world the news seems to focus on only the negative. 

After watching the news this past week it was hard not to become incredibly anxious about the current state of affairs in the world. Honestly began to feel as though we are living in an age of hysteria and panic and there is no hope. 

In some respects I feel as though life is just continuing around me like normal while in many other ways it feels like everything is changing minute to minute and nothing remains the same. 

I’m not sure which way to feel about anything. Am I supposed to feel panicked? Am I supposed to feel calm? Unfortunately, the source I use to obtain information only makes me feel a sense of unease and panic. My anxiety was at an all time high. 

I understand there is a situation occurring around me but the utter feeling of hopelessness and helplessness I feel seems worse than ever before. Things just feel so dire. 

I’m hoping things start to turn around in the coming days and I hope I just start to hear some good news too.

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