Good News

[ysabetwordsmith]

Good news includes all the things which make us happy or otherwise feel good. It can be personal or public. We never know when something wonderful will happen, and when it does, most people want to share it with someone. It's disappointing when nobody is there to appreciate it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our joys and pat each other on the back.

What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?

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Re: Thoughts

[see_also_friend]

Now that I think about it, most stories I see (even the RL ones) only seem to focus on a one or two parts of the process:

1) Business as usual
2) Something's maybe a bit funny here - I should ask about this
3) Definite problem, and I should do something, but I don't know what
4) Doing something (often at personal risk/sacrifice)
5) Aftermath, including the cost of doing right and re-odering one's life into a new configuration.

Usually, there's an apology in there somewhere too, though a practical apology of action-or-sacrifice may be substituted for a verbal one. (And in some cases, actions are better than words.)

I think Schindler's List may have done a full going-over of all the steps (though I never watched that movie.)

And I can think of only one other story (admittedly a very depressing one) I saw that does something similar in terms of going through all the steps. Though interestingly they ended up doing it multiple times, with different characters in the 'oppressor' group being out-of-synch with each other (and some not coming around at all).

Hmm, it does sound like the sort of story that needs telling more often.