Make me happy, make me smile!
In this locked down world good news* is hard to come by and happy smiling people are a rarity. And the news^ media thrives on bad news so they delight in telling us more and more miserable stuff. Today, for example, we heard that Australia Post would stop collecting mail for 4 days and that’s never happened before.
And that, the media revelled in telling us, means we won’t get our Fathers’ Day presents in time for the day and that may even jeopardise our Christmas present arrival. I hate to think what it may do to Valentine’s Day!
Woe, woe is us!
Well not entirely, sometimes an occasional exception. I had an unexpected phone call from a bright and bubbly lady to tell me that something I’d ordered and was expecting next week was available today, right now!
Well, it was only a little thing but, gee, it was great news. It made my day.
It got me thinking. In this Covid depressed world what can I do, what can you do, to brighten up someone’s day.
Maybe, for example, it’s just the good old “how’s things” call. Or perhaps something else that you can dream up.
Get Winston’s great audio series on “The “how’s things?” call” for just $8 here
And you’ll find that it’ll boomerang**… when you brighten their day, it’ll brighten yours too!
*Good news is hard to come by but creating records is good news isn’t it? In my part of the world, Victoria, we now hold the record for the most locked down days anywhere! You’ll understand we are intensely proud!
^news media thrives on bad news: My ageing memory reminds me that many years ago a new newspaper decided to publish only good news but it lasted just a few days.
**For non- Australian readers boomerang means come back, return.
Good News!
Or as Spike Milligan wrote;
I’ve never felt finer!
Said the King of China,
Sitting down to dine – Then fell down dead – he died he did!
It was only half past nine.
Thanks Bruce! Spike was great at relating good news! Here’s a quote of his I liked!
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe’s singing until somebody told me that it wasn’t a joke.