A week or so ago I read one really awful story about 2 parents living down south in the US who were selling their 3 daughters to people for slave acts with adults (they are minors, btw, and at least 1 was still in elementary school) to help pay for their addiction to bath salts. That did it for me.
Since then, except for what I have to read for work, I only read about new medical advancements and scientific discoveries. Like the fact that the oldest living animal (507 years old born in 1499) was found in the ocean off of Iceland and was accidentally killed by scientists who were trying to determine its age. Don't shed a tear, it was a clam, but despite the fact that it died as a direct result of scientists making an OOPS I call that story a win compared with the story of bath salt junkies.
At one point I became so upset with the state of the world due to my news resources that when a friend of mine saw the little illustration above I became super excited. Finally, something not horribly devastating!
I see those meme's that have people doing great things that at the end say "faith in humanity restored" and I wish the news was more like that. Terrible news creates higher ratings I guess, although I don't know a single person who enjoys reading of watching the news. So how is it possible that they get such great attention in the first place? Is it old people watching that are watching the news? I know the elderly tend to like the newspaper still. Who knows.
I had a good week, I kept my intake of disturbing news feed to an all-time low, and it's the freakin' weekend! Go enjoy yourselves!
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