932nd Friday Blog Roundup
No one is having a good time. It is the theme of my week — not good news followed by not good news — and based on my Facebook feed, it is the theme of everyone else’s week, too.
Our interconnectedness is never more apparent when everything goes wrong—for instance, COVID. One person does X (goes out while they’re sick), which impacts Y (gets sick because of the first person), who now cancels Z (because they’re sick), which throws A – W into chaos. You get it. Because you live it. So when bad news comes, you can usually trace it back through other bits of bad news.
Or sometimes it comes out of nowhere. Just a big bad news drop from left field. But more often than not, especially with little bad news (bad news with a lowercase b), it is connected to other bits of bad news.
Does it work the other way? Do good things lead to more good things for other people? Or is it only problems that spread from person to person?
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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.
Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.
As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.
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And now the blogs…
But first, second, helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
- “Does It Make Us Stronger?” (No Kidding in NZ)
Okay, now my choices this week.
Grumpy Rumblings is also swimming through a sea of bad news. They post a long list of rejections, summing it up: “ It’s hard to have so much rejection without a single acceptance in between.” Amen. I include this because the ending gave me hope. Feel what you need to feel, and then take the next step. Onward.
Lastly, A Half-Baked Life has a story of a GrubHub driver that made me cry. Thankful for people in the world who do the small things that make the big differences.
The roundup to the Roundup: Sorry if you’re having a bad week, too. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between February 10 – 17) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week. Read the original open thread post here.
2 comments
It’s tghe thing about negative news. Don’t psychologists etc say that it takes nine positive affirmations to make up for the damage done by one negative criticism? I think it’s the same thing with news.
I do like to think that good things can be passed on. (Paying it forward, etc) We can never underestimate the importance of a simple kind smile. It’s just that we don’t hear about the good. Even the disaster news – we’re hearing about heroism and kindnesses and we’re all donating to help. But we’re hearing more about the devastation, and the tough things. It’s hard to focus on the positive. Sending hugs – and hope this week negative things will not be the focus for you.
I just read and enjoyed Torthuil’s reflections on her 10-year blogging milestone!
https://torthuiljourney.blogspot.com/2023/02/living-inside-stories.html
I don’t know if one bad thing leads to another, but I’ve definitely noticed the whole cluster-of-threes thing at work from time to time… Hope this week is better for you!