Thoughts For Today!

I'm noticing that every day in the local paper several pages are filled with stories of local tragedies:

A hit and run death in downtown San Francisco

A murder-suicide in Hayward

A gang shooting in Oakland

An old lady beaten up in El Cerrito

A string of drug store robberies

And so on . . .

Am I just imagining that it used to be more like:

Successful Girl Scout cookie sale

Local boy gets scholarship to Harvard

Nuptials over the weekend

Missing dog found in Golden Gate Park

Yes, I'm just imagining stuff.  Do you find it tough to be optimistic?