Letter to the editor: Look on the bright side of things

As 2020 comes to an end, I look back at this year and see what the citizens of our country have endured. The Covid-19 pandemic, a political division that has taken the trust out of our democracy, and our continuing discrimination of people of color and people not of color.

But I saw a ray of hope this past weekend on a local news channel — a high school student giving back to an organization that gives all year long. He set up a GoFundMe page to help the local Carlton VFW make ends meet. I have often heard people say with a sarcastic tone that our youth are going to run this country someday. But there are so many good people out there.

I think we all have been looking at the glass half-empty so much that we don’t say it’s half-full and build on that. We need to look at more of the positive things that people do and build on the positive so we can feel better about ourselves and our neighbors. And crawl out of this hole we have slid into.

Let all of us keep in mind that we all are in this together. We will survive this if we step back and help each other any way we can and not to forget to look at the glass as half-full.

Scott Boedigheimer,

Scanlon