I happened to be rifling through random blog sites the other day and I came across one that had me hooked--for about 30 minutes, which happens to be eternity in the blog "stickiness" world. The young woman who authors it is documenting her courageous fight against cancer. The irony is, I didn't read any negative commentary and I read various postings that spanned months!
If you don't happen to read a newspaper on a daily basis I encourage you, just this once, to read the headlines of various publications the next time you pass a kiosk--Almost everything that makes the front page is a downer. A common phrase in the world of journalism is, "if it bleeds, it leads." Yuck.
Psychologists have said for a long, long time that for every negative thing someone hears, it takes approximately 20 good things to counteract its effect. Let's do some math...If an average of four articles are on the front page of most popular newspapers and 75% of those articles aren't feelgood stories, before you even have a cup of morning coffee, you will need at least 60 positive things to happen to eliminate the positivity deficit.
Getting back to the blog that captivated my attention, I am left almost speechless. The author could easily write about the horrors of cancer, dwell on the negative aspects of what must be a miserable time in her life and follow traditional media standards. But she doesn't. In my book, one positive thing written in her blog can act as a guide in eliminating every negative headline I will read for the rest of my life.
Happy Reading.
--Schmidty
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