A new revolution!...

By Vichara

There was a time not so long ago that TV stations did not start to broadcast programs including the news until sometimes 7am. Now in this 24 hour televised world every station is fighting to be the first to report…the bad news. It has become obsessive for all of them to ensure that we all know how bad the world is every minute of the day. Yes we all know from the Buddhist canon that the 4 Noble Truths tell us that “life is suffering” but I’m sure that many of you out there know that life has many good points and is not only doom & gloom like those televised talking heads want you to believe. We need to start a revolution, a revolution of good news. I know its out there, we may have witnessed it ourselves. The moments of selflessness, simple acts of kindness and gestures of good that have made a difference. We need to turn that adage “bad news sells” to “good news inspires”. What if there was a dedicated segment of the news where our local anchor people run down simple stories of compassion and goodness. I’m sure that somewhere there is evidence that bad acts inspire other bad acts, we assume that they will always be there. But what if we try to tip the balance and show clear evidence of good acts to inspire other good acts. Now that would be a wonderful revolution!