How about this? Quit watching the news for a week or two. It’s not like the world will suddenly end if you just quit paying attention for a while, but I bet it would do wonders for your heartrate and your general well-being. Concentrate on your family, concentrate on getting over being sick, concentrate on how lucky you are to even have kids at all, to have a wife who loves you. Concentrate on how damn lucky you are that generally, as far as things go, you’re usually healthy and happy and surrounded by people who love you. THAT’S good news, and not something all of us can claim – I mean, come on, hello! Look where I am! At least you’re not stuck in bed all the time having to deal with surgery after surgery, facing a future without what you’ve dreamt about, or without kids of your own.
Sure, a lot of things suck in this world, I’ll be the first to agree to that. But it could always be a lot worse, and quite frankly, things aren’t all that bad all over everywhere. For every bit of bad there’s a bit of good, it’s just that the good stuff doesn’t make for good ratings. So turn off the TV, take a look around you, go hug your kids, go kiss your wife, and realize that hey, you’re a lucky man after all.