Originally posted by robbie carrobie
i see you are intent of wrecking the happy nature of my thread, your comments shall
be ignored, as will you. Not one happy experience could you relate and yet you seem
adept at proffering nothing but negativity and hatred, well, so be it, you are on your
own, dont reply to my posts, your are not the sort of person i wish to have any
correspondence with, good day and goodbye.
I agree that we should spend more time considering what is good in life. The media is obsessed with bad news stories. A survey showed that, in just over a decade, the ratio of bad news to good news stories had gone from around 4 to 1 to 16 to 1 or thereabouts.
So, some of the things that make me happy:
1) That I live in a country where people of all races, religious beliefs (and non-beliefs), politics etc co-exist for the most part in peace.
2) That I live in a country where a person can choose who they want to marry irrespective of gender, race, religion, social class etc
3) That, when I was a teenager, I hoped to see 3 things in my lifetime - the end of apartheid in South Africa, the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and the end of the IRA's campaign. And I have seen them all!
4) That we live in a world where digital technology is systematically helping to empower people against those that would misuse power against them
5) That we live in a time when scientific discovery is opening up perspectives on the universe that would have been considered inconceivable only a matter of century or two ago
6) That we live in a time when medical science has helped to reduce the suffering of millions of people
7) That I have had the monumental good fortune to be here to see and appreciate this, and more.
But above all, I was asked yesterday by my 5 year old whether he could give all his money to Barnados 'to help poor kids'.
I hope this is happy enough for you. 🙂