Starting today, I am boycotting the daily newspaper for one week. I have had it with all the doom and gloom. Normally, I keep up daily with current events because I find it important to know what is happening in our world. However, lately all that seems to be happening is nothing but bad news. Here is an example from yesterday's local headlines: "Americans remain gloomy about the economy", "State consumer confidence is no longer on the rise", "October is deadliest month of Afghan war", "Woman awakes to find gun pointed at head", "Man accused of molesting girl", etc, etc, etc.
I'm over it. I am a realistic person who keeps a positive attitude yet doesn't look at the world through rose-colored glasses (and if you listen to the media, you couldn't if you tried). But this is ridiculous. So, with the exception of Dear Abby and possibly the comics, I am turning my back on the paper this week. Enough is enough. I will let you know next Thursday how my week went without the daily news. By the way, the reason I am not boycotting the television news is because I did that years ago. I figured that by reading the paper instead, I could bypass the really negative stuff by reading around it. Now the majority of the paper is negative as well, so here I am.
Would someone please pass me their rose-colored glasses?
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