Everything in this world seems bad now

if i could bottle the cheerfulness of this lil girl,i'd make a fortune. she's just always happy.

I agree. When your focus is a happy one, you do tend to momentarily stop thinking about all the sadness in the world. I only wish for me that it would last. It does make me happy to hear that someone loves their precious bundle like I do.

That is great advice. I guess you can look at the glass half empty or half full. There is a lot of stuff that you cannot change but there is also stuff that you can change, like your attitude. I will try to take your advice. There are still things that will bother me but you are right, just happy to have food in the frig is a good start to think about. I appreciate your response.

Thank you for your thoughtful response. Suffering loss is one of the hardest things a sensitive, caring person has to deal with. I wish I knew of a magic way to feel better when experiencing these mind-devastating situations but unfortunately there isn't. Time is the only thing that can put distance between thoughts and pain and if one is lucky enough to hang on for time to pass, one does find that time does cause a bad memory to fade somewhat but it never goes away completely. Time has also revealed the face of our economy and will continue to do so. Some things may improve for some but other things will get worse for some. I still believe that the "middle class" in America will be hit the hardest by changes to come and that life will get better for some of those who have their hand out for a free ride. Injustice continues to thrive.

It is good that you are not too affected. I know there are bad things happening all over the world. Some of those things also make me depressed. So many people have all kinds of different personalities that I guess we cannot all get along. I would like a few people to disappear from my life also, I work with them. I hate the abusive things that happen to children and to animals. This world is very cruel. It is hard not to be depressed about these things.

We take a lot for granted these days. I often wonder what it would have been like living in the horse and buggy days. Life seemed so much simplier in those days. Of course there was war, which is awful and sad but I bet there was less polution and happier and healthier people except for certain plagues and diseases that we now have cures for. I recycle. I do not eat any animal products or wear any animal products. It is not only the environment and what we humans are doing to destroy it that I worry about; it is what we humans do to other humans and to animals that sends me into a tailspin.

Yes, sometimes I am very longing for the life in the old days. Although life in the past didn't have many sorts of entertainment, travels and technology products, it was much more simpler and purer, which is very rare in our modern days. What's more, the environment in the past was very nice for human beings to live in. People at that time didn't need to warry about sandstorms, etc. How wonderful!