Marilyn,

I had planned to stay the hell out of the fray since I had stated my opinion and left it at that. But your comments about how so much is wrong really caught my attention.

Since the first time a small group of people banded together in a village until today, there have been problems. From a Neolithic tribe living in some jungle that has never been seen to modern society, there are problems. But if all you focus on is the problems, then all you’ll see is the problems.

It’s like watching the news at night -you go through 30 minutes of stories and get to the very end and they have a 30-second blurb of a human-interest story about someone doing something good in the community to help others. When in reality, people helping others, working to make a better community and better lives are more real and happen so much more often than the sensational stories. In my opinion, they have their formats backwards. Unfortunately, nice doesn’t sell advertising space.

Maybe I am the naïve, Pollyanna my father always accused me of being. Honestly…if I am, I’m glad that I am and don’t give a damn what others think. There’s too much good in the world, too much good in people to just write everything and everyone off as a lost cause. Problems, yes…but problems can be fixed.

One thing I’ve worked to do for more years than I can remember is to try and find one redeeming quality in everyone I meet…at least one. But if I can take an unpleasant, hateful, generally awful person and find even one little thing good about them, then I find it just gives a little more hope for me and for all of us.

Pollyanna (and her opinions) signing off.

Lisa