Bristol County Daily News

It just seems every time I pick up the newspaper or turn on the television all I hear about is death and destruction. I begin to wonder if we would stop publicizing it so much that maybe people would not do it so much. I know it sounds idealistic but what if. We are a star crazed society we are always looking to be important in some way. Have our picture in the paper. Be recognized by others. Maybe we should do the short pieces on the rotten people and do the large pieces on the great people. Today's paper had a very very small piece about a man that saw a child fall off a dock into the freezing water while tossing rocks. It was about one paragraph. It left me wondering I will admit. I wondered why a man eating his lunch in a parked car jumped out, ran to the dock, jumped in, grabbed the child and handed her to her mothers boyfriend. First why didn't the mother or the boyfriend jump in. Why was the story so short. Next to it was a very long and detailed story about the grieving process of children in a high school where two children recently died. www.boston.com/city_region . How about a wonderful story about how they lived what great things they did who they where lets tell a great story and celebrate there lives not there deaths. Yes it is a tragedy and there lives where too short. But I bet if you looked in to the short lives that they lived they did something great. Lets hear it. I want to know about the boy and how he loved to play guitar. Who taught him. What was his favorite genre. Maybe just maybe if we talked a lot about him as a real person the person that ran him over would come forward. The story could follow about making a terrible mistake late one night and how that person made the right choose the second time around by telling the truth and turning them selves in. Show the world you can do something terrible wrong and stand up and take the punishment even if it took a few days or weeks to make the right choice. We have all made bad choices at one time or another and I for one wish I could make them right or at least stop carrying them around. They get heavy after a while. This would be a good time for everyone to choose one wrong and try to make it right. Find the person or persons and face them tell them ask them to hear you. This is not about forgiveness this is about standing up and facing what you did. I have three regrets in my life and I will carry them forever because the people have passed and I can not tell them. Don't let a mistake shape your life take a chance.