Everyone Is Suffering In Their Own Way, But Many Are Overcoming It. Focus on That

in #triptolemus5 years ago

I was walking into my gym yesterday and I saw a bunch of people huddled around the TV in the locker room.

They were all watching the news.

The news is something that I hate to watch. I stay as far away from it as possible, but it still find a way to creep into my life.

It's like a plague. It's a straight up disease. The news is toxic. One of the most toxic things you can do with your time in my opinion.

The reason why is because the news is always looking to bump their numbers. It's all they really care about.

The news is not there to give you factual information and it's not there to inform you. It's a business. It's in the business of headlines and clicks and views.

Thus, when things are on the news, they're purposefully aligned with the mission of making people watch and get clicks. How do they accomplish this? They tell you everything that's wrong with the world.

The news will tell you all the shit that's going on in the world and little-to-none of what's great in the world.

The people huddled around the TV in my gym were watching something about an accident that happened nearby. They were gasping and talking about the crash as if the world was ending.. It's all they could talk about!

It's good to be informed about the world, but it's not good to be negatively and constantly reinforced with terrible information like what comes from the news.

I think this quote tells a better story. A better way to view the world:

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller

Although there is so much suffering out there and so many people who are in terrible situations and experiencing terrible things, there are so many people out there who are overcoming these sufferings.

Not only are they overcoming them, they are turning their suffering into a greater achievement. They're leveraging their pain in order to grow so that they can one day help others overcome suffering as well.

Rather than watch the news and bathe in negativity, I recommend looking online for some real and inspirational stories of people who not only suffered some sort of trauma, but who overcame it and turned it into something deeper and more meaningful.

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Many success stories contain suffer in background... chance to catch new opportunities.

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