What is it about the newspapers that you enjoy? Is it reading about the murders, rapes and ill-treatment of your fellow man? If you were to read something which made your heart sink, do you think that has benefited you at all? If you consider that the reason people are motivated to any action in life is to feel better, then why do people give their attention to anything that makes them feel bad? It’s counter productive action before you’ve even started.
A news amnesty was my starting point. 18 months with no television news, no newspapers, and after the initial shock and lack of filler conversation, I realised how little it had impacted my life. More explicitly, how little it had positively impacted my life. There’s a lot of stuff that happens that really has very little to do with me, it’s not that I don’t care, but really I can’t do much to change it. I’m sure the newspapers want to bring you stories which sell papers, and when they can’t find local news that is shocking enough, they trawl the rest of the world for the very worst that is happening. I can understand why, they are just trying to maximise their profits, and if people didn’t buy papers, then they’d have to give them away, oh hang on…….
The press will write what its readers want to read. The majority are well and truly ensconced in the reality of the now, believing that they might be victims to the many bad things out there, so they want to know what they’re up against and then try to avoid these things. Unfortunately, such a life philosophy will never work as intended. Because if you give your attention to something you are asking for it. You cannot resist things that you don’t want and push them away. It never works.
Bad news sells, there’s no doubt about it. We just seem to love the drama of it all. But this drama does come at a price; it makes us feel lousy. People often forget that life is all about feeling better. Everything that we want is for no other reason than we think we’ll feel better when we get it. Whether it be money, relationships, fame, love, it’s all about feeling better. Which begs the question; why would you do anything that made you feel worse? Granted, you’re always going to encounter things that you don’t like in life, such is the variety and such is your personal preference. But why would anyone deliberately focus their attention on something that made them feel worse, given a choice?
And that’s where we, and also where you come in. Happy News Stories. That is what this website is about. If you want to read the news, read the news that makes you feel good, here’s the place to come. We’ll be referencing happy stories from other news sites and writing some of our own. (If you would like to contribute, email mrhappy@happyhappyhappynews.com). If it’s not good-feeling, it shouldn’t be on here.
Use your emotions in the way that they were intended. Feel good, and know that your life in on the right track; heading towards something that is going to feel good when you get there.
If you had two friends, and one of them was ornery and complaining most of the time, and the other was happy and positive. Which would you rather spend time with? It’s not hard to see that happy people are more fun, more clear minded, less accident prone, more successful, have more attractive partners. They also feel good to be around.
Do whatever you have to do to feel good, and then do anything else you have time for.
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