More often than not, we get to see news headlines and stories that give an impression that the world around us is heading towards an imminent doom, and that things are never going to get better anytime soon.

It is a good thing and an important duty of the media to bring to light the dark aspects of society and hold people responsible for them.

But it is also equally important to find the good and highlight it, to make it available to the people looking for the traces of light at the other side of the tunnel.

There are some media agencies working all over the world to bring good things to the notice of the public, and they need to be appreciated, no doubt.

What we need is more and more positive news to show the people that things are getting better at a constant pace.

Thankfully, we have also seen a number of good things all over the world in recent years, such as themes like animal rights, science, and climate change.

One of the most important reasons why bad news go viral more often than the good one is that we, as humans, tend to be thrilled more by a sudden disaster rather than small, incremental improvements.

Bad things happen suddenly; you die in a second but it takes all those years to make you what you are. On the other hand, good things happen at a slower pace and that seems to be incompatible with our fast-paced lives.

As humans, we tend to have a ‘negative bias,’ a system of thoughts that makes us respond to dangerous or bad situations faster than we do to the good ones.

The print, electronic and social media is taking advantage of this psychological fact to portray a picture that the world around us is going to fall apart anytime now.

But not anymore! To balance all the negative news, you went through the last year, here’s a list of 50 good things that will make you believe that the world is not falling apart, not anytime soon.

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