Why I'm Striving for Good ...

Amazing!
It will leave you breathless ...
You won't believe what he does next ...
Epic, stunning, striking, open-your-thesaurus and spew ...
I wasn't prepared for the last image.
What happens next will ... (restore your faith in humanity, make your heart burst, blow your mind)

So, we've been bombarded by amazing, stunning, epic ... Everything is Up-Worthy. Everything is mind blowing. Having our brains get blown to bits now seems pretty mundane, so I'm waiting for something to melt my kidneys and have my liver duplicate itself on its own (I hear they can do that worm, regeneration thing, right?)

We share, share, overshare (No. I'm not exempt from this, hence the first person plural). We are stunned, amazed, and now a bit bored by it all. Up-Worthy to me has become the equivalent of Hallmark Spam. Sound bytes and images and video clips of things that in and of themselves might be pretty neat. But then the bombast and the overshare and the da-dum-da-dum ... what happens next will ...

I would love to see: This guy reunites with his best friend from childhood. What follows will bore you to tears.
or ...

This seems like a nice kid. He has stuff to say. Listen if you will.

Oh and the cats!! The memes ... Sorry guys, NO cat is upworthy to me. Really.  And I'm not even going to talk about the latest Buzzfeed "Which ______ are you?" I think they should do "Which over-used, cliche, Upworthyism are you?" I bet they have it.

Criminy. It's downright irritating. It feels forced and staged. I'm just so dang sick of the saccharine of the amazing of the bursting hearts and blowing minds. It's become the equivalent of a sugared-up, greeting card Tarantino.


You know what gives me chills? When somebody says, "That was good."

There's something powerful about sincerity. 

So, as a friend posted today, find the extraordinary in the ordinary without all the humbug. Keep the good ... good.