- the rise of old friends senior dog sanctuary
- Hamilton
- pokemon go
- female ghostbusters
- i don’t give a fuck im outta here Obama
- captain america civil war
- girl, black guy and latino guy leads in new star wars
- deadpool
- lemonade
- literally???! Nothing??? Else????
WELL ACTUALLY SINCE YOU ASKED:
- 500 elephants were relocated to a better, safer and bigger home.
- We made massive strides in Alzheimers’ prevention.
- This therapy could cure radiation sickness.
- The Anglican church resolved to solemnize same-sex unions the same as opposite-sex unions, which required a super-majority of all three orders of the church (lay, clergy, bishop) and got MORE than that from both lay and bishop.
- The Liberal gov’t changed the Canada Child Benefit so that it’s actually helping people who NEED THE FUCKING HELP. (I am sorry if you are a six figure income you do not actually fucking need this make some fucking lifestyle adjustments for fuck’s sake.)
- Highway of Tears is finally getting some regular fucking bus service.
- Eastwood donated a bunch more land to the Carmel River restoration project.
- We have developed gene-therapy for autoimmune disorders.
- Precision treatments for cancer are hitting clinical trials and WORKING.
- Dentists are once again providing free care to veterans who need it.
- Canada is actively attempting to increase and improve refugee resettlement.
- This guy got to see his kids again.
- Net Neutrality has been upheld by the appeals court. (No that fight isn’t over BUT THIS IS STILL A FUCK OF A GOOD THING.)
- We may have cured MS. (LET ME REPEAT: WE MAY HAVE CURED MS.)
- New short-treatment-period cure for HepC is huge success.
- Rise Women’s Legal Centre opened.
… . and this is just what I came up with in a pretty lazy google search in an hour, including distractions where I went down the research rabbit-hole for a bit because holy crap some of that stuff’s NEAT, guys!
And I know I’m missing stuff, because I wanted a citation for every single thing I put on there.
Yes, there have been some really bad things that have happened in 2016. There have also been a number of huge fucking miracles, and SIMILAR bad things have always happened, just about every damn year - maybe not to you, or maybe they didn’t make the news, and maybe you just don’t remember any of the good because of that whole massive Negative Bias problem that human brains have, but?
A lot of good shit happened. A lot.
And like I do actually get the sudden overwhelmed feeling of EVERYTHING SUCKS? but that mindset is, at this point, literally our worst enemy. “Everything is terrible somebody do something” helplessness is what will in fact consign us to everything BEING terrible.
Everything is not terrible. In fact there are new ways, every single month, wherein new opportunities and miracles are happening and no that does not balance out the bad shit but it gives every reason to FIGHT the bad shit, and to get past the bad shit, and to make sure the bad shit ISN’T the overwhelming stain.
So.
I want EVERY single one of my followers to read this. PLEASE I know a lot of bad things happened this year and it’s ok to be upset but all of this pessimism is only making things worse
More good things:
- Giant pandas are no longer endangered.
- Solar plane makes complete trip around the world without a drop of fuel.
- Mother to child HIV transmission has been reduced to zero in Cuba as of 2015.
- Ice Bucket Challenge directly contributes to gene discovery for ALS research.
- Volunteers in India smash a world record planting 50 million trees in one day.
- A hairdresser in New York offers free haircuts for the homeless, sparking the movement #DoSomethingForNothing.
- A permanent cure for sickle cell anemia has been found.
For more positivity, here is a list of good news websites, my favorite being Good News Network.
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my dog doesn’t check himself out in the mirror before going on a walk. why should i? my dog doesn’t compare himself to other dogs. why should i compare myself to other people? my dog knows he is loved and beautiful and he doesn’t second guess it. why should my mindset be any different? treat yourself like you would a puppy. even if that means getting up in the morning, looking in the mirror, and saying, “i look super cute today! i’m going to do great today!” in your best puppy voice.
“Be a girl who looks at food as fuel, not an enemy. A girl who runs knows her body is a gladiator, a warrior that needs energy, but who also deserves that piece of chocolate cake the night after kicking ass in a big race. Be a girl who eats bowls of pasta and stacks of pancakes and sees them not as calories, but as inches in miles.”
-Helen Campo
“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”
—
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
(via wordsnquotes)
I wish people would stop saying “It’s July. Well done for wasting half a year.” Did you make someone smile in the past six months? Did you stroke a cat or throw a stick for a dog? Did you learn a new fact or teach someone a new joke? Did you laugh, cry, scream or sing in the past six months? Because if so, congratulations for not wasting your time at all.
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.
I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person.
Cats dominate the internet, rather than dogs, because dog-people have to go out more often.
We want legs, that are more longer, we want longer hair, we want a skinny body or a body with more curves, we want to have a cat and we want to have a dog, we want to live near the ocean and near the mountains, we want to live in a big city but we also want to live where it is not too loud at night, we want to make new friends but we also want to stay quiet in the background because making friends is not that easy, we want a pretty but also lovely boyfriend, we want to have good grades but we do not want to study for them, we want a good job, we want to have lots of money so that we can buy lots of the things we want to have, we want to live in a big and amazing house or flat, we want one or more child or we want to have no children, we want, we want, we want…
We want all these things, but we do not want to fight for them, we just want to have them because we want an easy life. But living is not worth it if you have nothing to fight for. Imagine, how boring your life would be if you would get all the things you want.
Stop wishing to have all those things and start being thankful for the things you already have and if you want more, then you have to leave your comfort zone.
Stop wishing, start doing.
concept: me, 10 years from now, living in a pretty house with my love, sipping a hot cappuccino on a rainy autumn afternoon. our dog curls up next to me in the window bench while our cat snoozes on the bed. i’m financially stable and i’m never tired anymore. the bees are safe.
