In this day and age when almost anything that happens can echo up to the farthest corner of the globe, everyone must have heard of what has happened recently in my country, Yes we have given the world a share of our good news and bad news. Whatever others feel because of these, the condemnation, reprisals, sympathy or praise, we deserve them all. No nation or system is ever perfect, but I am sure everyone and anyone would do his best in the face of any crisis, be it in a knee shaking question and answer portion of a beauty pageant or in a resolving a life or death hostage taking drama. Only at times, our best is not good enough in the eyes of others.
Whenever some bad news had to be told at the domestic level, hubby would match it up with a good news ( he'd always manage to think of one) and then he'd break it to us like this: I have good news and bad news, which do you like to hear first?
Whatever your choice, you would know for sure that the good one would offset the effect of the bad one. Then it would not hurt as bad anymore.
In life both the good and the bad happen. They co exist to make us appreciate the good better. How could we appreciate light if there was no darkness? How would we know of beauty if we have not known ugliness? It is these dichotomies that make life go on, that makes us hang on to hope.
A friend, when I told him about the violent hostage taking news and how embarrassed I was for my country soothed me by saying, " O h I saw good news too. You are a land of beautiful women."
I smiled because I wanted to say that was not necessarily true. But he sure knows how to sidestep the topic. That set our conversation to a more positive note.
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