Today started out great, waking early without anxiety, feeling positive and looking forward to the sunny warm day ahead, but I did a stupid thing — I read some news articles.

Before getting my day started, I was sitting in bed, with the dog at my feet and I grabbed my iPad to play a quick round of Juice Jam (a simple, brightly coloured, happy little game) but, my finger instead clicked on Facebook and I began checking out what was up with my friends and family.

The first few shares were fun videos and stories: interesting deep sea creatures (beautiful and mesmerizing), DNA journey (this one is cool – check it out), funny animal videos (oh, those silly goats); however, it changed quickly: abused animals (OMG), young lady raped in Brazil (OMG), bullying stories (OMG)…sadness and anxiety set in and derailed my day. 

I’ve managed to do the usual things today, taken the dog to the park, cleaned a few things around the house, planned dinner, chatted with a friend, but I have also searched for and read even more negative news articles and I’ve done it all with a sinking uneasy feeling in my stomach as if some impending doom was about to befall upon me…Yikes!

<Deep breath> I just need to remind myself of something: “Kim, you truly believe, 100% and wholeheartedly that the world is a good, loving and kind place and you work hard to share this idea with others all the time; yes, bad things happen but good outweighs the bad and we just don’t always hear about it (especially in the news)” — so, now that I’ve reminded myself of this, I’m actually feeling much better and I’m going to enjoy what’s left of my day (never too late), Oh, AND I’m not going to look at bad news stories tomorrow, I’ll stick with a quick round of Juice Jam! 🙂