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Retrospection About Good News
MARCH 31, 2009Aparna Atluru, HappyNews StaffGood news tends to come and go. It hardly has the lasting-power of bad news. Death is permanent; birth has at most 120 years of lasting power. Good news often falls prey as unfortunate news tries to knock happy news to the ground, teeth-on-pavement. Good news tends not to be good news for long, because good news by nature spawns better and better news.
Bad news comes with lore — the black cat, ladders, and broken mirrors. Bad news is superstition, while good news seems to come with so much less back story. Good news often lives in oblivion, while bad news steals the spotlight. Yet the good news accepts this backseat. After all, the best news is often forgotten.
And sometimes good news tends to bore. It has not the hateful, vile variety of bad news. But good news is human births. Good news is human lives. Good news, seems to me, is why we still exist. Bad news is easier to remember, but good news is more remarkable. Though the broadcast at 5 o’clock every evening seems to tell us otherwise, good news triumphs ten fold over bad news. Otherwise, we humans would all be specimens in someone else’s museums.
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