I tuned into my morning radio show today hoping to feel more up than I usually do hearing what's going on in my town on the West Coast of this beautiful country. I learned that yet another program is being installed to assist a group of people who have difficulties. That's great but why are we, on national radio, called entertainment, installing yet another whole section of time to a small bunch who already have loads of support for their cause. Now it's going to be stuck into the early part of the day along with all the other complainers needing more of everything that goes on endlessly for hours. What used to be a cheery program in the morning with news, traffic and weather plus pleasant music, is turning into another save-the-world broadcast with the saddest, baddest articles coming at me and dragging me, a normal, regular, happy person down into darker areas to begin the day. SORRY BUT (a common Canadian expression ), I need a break from bad news when I get up. It makes want to do something good in the day ahead. Okay, that sounds selfish, but really, I also need my citizen battery charged up, too. I do what I can, in my way, to donate, recycle, go low carb, stay low carbon, buy my country's goods and try to be nice to everyone. I can take only so much (sorry but) whining by groups of people with problems that are serious and thought provoking but in order to be on the donating and volunteering, the caring end, I also need some time in my day that is uplifting. This morning program used to get me started so that I could go out and serve my fellow man and woman kind. Now, on start up radio, I listen to twenty minutes of this problem and fifteen of that one, of murder, beatings, riots, wars, starvation, vandalism, kidnapping and car accident victims as well as political issues, unemployment, homelessness and scores of other negative situations. Do I need to know about them? Yes I do, but I also need nice music, positive outlooks and gentle thoughts to start my day. I need that to help others from this, my much criticised place in society, for which I will not apologise. I worked hard and tried to be good all my life and now near the end of it I want to help, I don't want to be loaded up with the bad side of the world's bad state, first thing every day. Sorry but.
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