Let's face it, folks. For many people around the world, 2008 has not been a very good year. In the country once known as Burma, a typhoon hit and killed hundreds of thousands of people and the military rulers didn't allow much of the foreign aid into the country, thinking they'd be invaded by outsiders. In Iraq, the war is calming down a bit but people still get killed there by bombs and insurgents. In most places, food prices are going up for various reasons, especially the high cost of oil. In the U.S., vast areas of the Midwest are flooding because of heavy rains that are making rivers overflow their banks.....

I'm getting to the point in which I can't really read the paper or watch the TV news, which I once did because I felt it was important to. I get bummed out easily and feel a sense of dread on a daily basis. In short, I'm not coping too well with all the bad news.

How about it? Anyone else having a hard time with all the doom and gloom. If not, how do you cope with it?

Yes I also get perturbed when all these news are aired or read about the mis-haps, but you see life has to move on and it keeps moving.But the heart rendering news are a permanent feature these days.

I think it has always been like that. Something bad was happening at all times. It is just that now due to easy communication mediums we got to know about all these in matter of few hours. Anyway bad news will always be the first choice for all the newscasters since that is what makes people sit and take notice.

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Fast & Furious

2008 has been a difficult one financially for a lot of people. Homes are being foreclosed, people are losing jobs, young men and women are still losing their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. But life has a habit of pulling you through the hard times. Never hopelessness, just hope.