If someone were to ask me what my view of the world is, I would have two answers. My first answer would be beautiful. From the palm trees in California to the glaciers in Antarctica, I think that all nature is mesmerizing. My second answer would be that the world is disappointing. Based on what I see on the news every day, I think that us humans are ruining our own lives mentally, physically, and spiritually. We care more about what happened to the balls in a semi-final football game than the fact that another country just experienced a traumatic earthquake that devastated the lives of thousands. I would be a hypocrite if I didn't admit that sometimes I forget what is really important. But lately, I feel like every news source that I find is talking about some terrible thing that a cop did. No matter who is to blame, somebody did something wrong, but I don't feel like it deserves national broadcasting. I'm sure some people would disagree, but it seems to me like private matters that should be handled in such a way. Across the world, ISIS is blowing up hundreds of people and diseases are taking the lives of millions of Africans, yet we remain untouched my the atrocities. But something bad happens to a movie star, and the whole world stops to look. Overall, I feel like our priorities are wrong. I wish that when I turned on my TV, I would see inspirational stories and happy stories instead of celebrity gossip and what's going on with so-and-so. I know that I won't be able to change the world, but I can always change myself, and I will always strive to be a better person.
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