news?

I'm starting to hate (okay that's a bit heavy), dislike newspapers nowadays. It's all bad news and more bad news. Is this world really changing from good to bad to worst? Don't you remember how your parents or grandparents would always comment about "the good ol' days- when everyone trusted everyone, children roamed around the streets alone like birds flying in the sky, freely, no worries, and without fear"?

Is it that the people in the world today are worst off than the people twenty to thirty years ago? Are we becoming more inhuman?

I really do think that, in the olden days, there are crimes like today. Only that, they were not widely publicised as news are right now. And more often than not, the media publishes a whole load of crap, far from the truth.

However, I believe in the phrase "It's better to be safe than sorry", but, i do not want to control my way of living just because of all these! I do not want to live in fear, and looking over my shoulder each time I leave the house. What's the point in living then? To be a girl at a time like today, is an extremely hard thing to do. Well, actually being a female in any period of time is a hard thing.

It all boils down to the mental frame of the crime-committers/crime-committer-wannabes, what is going on in that crazy mind of yours??