As another week of human detritus flows under the bridge of life, it's easy to see how getting up on a Monday morning can be disheartening.
Apart from issues with the economy such as redundancy threats, benefit changes, education issues and failing care for the elderly, there are floods, food price increases and increased fuel prices as the dark days and long, cold nights approach. (yipee)
Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan et al continue playing revenge games; Pakistan, Israel, Iraq, Yemen...the relentless inhumanity is revealed somewhere every day. (hurrah)
What registered most highly this week on your 'shock/horror/disgust' radar?
Was it the shooting of Mulala, a 14 year old Pakistani girl who spoke out against the Taliban for depriving her and other girls of an education? Or was it the follow-up threat telling the world they would have another go?
Was it the continuing conflict in Syria or the drug gangs devastating South America? Is it the breakdown of communities in Greece, Spain and other euro zone countries who as nations did what many of us do as individuals - borrowed too much. Is rioting thee answer?
Maybe it's people trafficking that gets your goat, from Eastern Europe, Bangladesh or China for example; or paedophiles being dragged out of the woodwork as DNA evidence convicts more abusers from the past, priests, vicars, teachers and most recently, the furore around the once beloved-by-all, the late Sir Jimmy Savile.
Sport is supposed to be a great bringing together of people with differing political and religious values without prejudice. The 2012 Olympic Games in London was a wonderful demonstration of this.
But in football/soccer particularly, we find this perceived camaraderie breaking down regularly, as
'monkey chants' and personal violence both on and off the pitch manifests itself. This was demonstrated most recently when a Championship league football goal keeper was assaulted during a televised game by a fan of the opposing team.
From the USA, we hear rhetoric from the battle for the presidency. Who wants to live in The White House more - Obama or Romney? Either way, what will happen to the economy or gun laws, and how will the consequences of the outcome affect us?
Stabbings and arson attacks appear in the news daily. Fathers killing their families then killing themselves, women dying at the hand of disgruntled exes and road abusers driving the wrong way down motorways, or falling asleep at the wheel or playing at drive-by shooting, killing or injuring the innocent.
Our response? What have you done to help shift the detritus? Zero or something?
Louis Armstrong sang 'What a wonderful world', it's so easy to see it differently.
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