I just watched the video of the where the guy got a baseball, then handed it to the small child near him. Certainly, a feel-good video, no question. I love watching people do nice things for one another. I love seeing something ordinary made extraordinary.
Things like that gesture are really special to me. I like to believe that the guy who handed the baseball to the kid did it because he's a nice guy, and it's just second-nature to do a random act of kindness. He probably wasn't thinking about it being shown on the big screen, he probably wasn't thinking that strangers from all over would see his actions, he was probably doing what he thought was right.
He probably wasn't thinking about giving the kid a lifelong memory of a ballgame, either. But he probably did that, too. He wasn't thinking that he's giving this kid a lesson in kindness, and maybe the kid will show the same kindness one day. He only gave the kid a baseball.
So, what is it about videos showing good things that makes them so special? I think that “news” is reporting what happened, and “news” seems to think that only bad things happen, at least the majority of the time. So, from a young age, we're conditioned to believe that good is extraordinary, and despicable is commonplace. I also believe the media thinks we all have schadenfreude to some degree, and they think that bad news will get better ratings. Once in a while, the news shows a good news snippet, usually at the end, after sports and weather.
Am I the only one who thinks that we need to see more of the good in people, in the world? I can't be the only Pollyanna out there.
So, keeping that in mind, today is a good day. They are all good days, sometimes punctuated by lousy moments. Today I'm happy. And grateful. Grateful for so much good.
It's out there; you just have to know where to look for it.
Love,
Pollyanna
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