In the morning that was just dawning, the headline featured on the front page of the newspaper, drew attention: Recorded wickedness.

In another newspaper, the news, in big, bold letters, was about the misfortune of a family whose teenage son was victim of a so-called stray bullet.

That took place on Mother's Day, while the family was preparing for lunch, and the young boy was heading for the drugstore to buy medicine for his father.

Woes. Violence.

We look at the world and, sometimes, we feel insecure, frightened.

It seems that honor has said its farewells to Humanity; decency hid somewhere secret and the bad people take over the world.

It seems so. It only seems so. All of this happens, in truth, because, although we are in the Third Millennium, in the twenty-first century, yet man is pleased with bad things.

Consider this: why do we depict, on the front page of the newspaper, the cruel, inhuman criminal, with the description of his or her heinous crime?

Why so much space for the atrocity he or she committed, which is described in detail?

Why does the visit of a scientist, engaged for years in the laboratory research for the discovery of a vaccine, get a little note, at an internal page?

Why do we blare out corruption on the front page, whilst an act of heroism is reported with no emphasis at all?

Why do we value evil, wickedness, instead of what is good, beautiful and should be imitated?

Why do not we use the front page of the newspaper to announce the winning of a medal by an athlete?

Or to announce the ballet spectacle a school will present?

Or, again, a show, whose proceeds will benefit the sufferers of a particular disease?

Why do we reward those who do evil and do not point up the ones who do good?

Who has ever seen a headline on a welfare entity that provides shelter for people with disabilities?

Why not show the dedication of physiotherapists, speech therapists working with people suffering from cerebral palsy?

How about the ones who work with the elderly, with patients with Alzheimer's disease?

Why not report Doctors Without Borders' work, in headlines? How about the benefits they provide, their victorious battles against death, the lives they change?

Why not show the dedication of brave mothers who every day embrace their children totally dependent on their care?

How about the adults' endearment for elderly, dependent parents?

Why not broadly display the entities that protect dogs and cats abandoned in the streets?

Why not announce, in great color photos, the inauguration of a new nursery, of a garden, of a park?

Why not talk about a hospital's or a school's good work?

These institutions often appear when something suspicious or wrong happens there.

Are not years and years of dedication, of service to the people, worth anything?

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Let us think about it and begin to demand these who handle the press, the insertion of positive things.

Let us say, by not joining the violence and evil wave that wants to take over the Earth, that we want to see, hear and feel good things.

Hence, let us invest in good magazines, in good periodicals, in valuable programs.

Let us help support a good radio or television program.

And, if we are the ones who write, illustrate, create, let us display in our writings, pictures and creations, with much emphasis, which is good, beautiful and helpful.

Let us be certain that, this way, we will be investing in the better world we all want for ourselves and our children.

Spiritist Moment Team.
October 11.2010.