A Balanced Worldview

Love Is Not Newsworthy — But It’s Everywhere

There’s a beautiful detail about Love Actually that most people miss.

The opening and closing airport scenes — all those reunions, tears, laughter, people running into each other’s arms — weren’t staged. The production team set up hidden cameras in the arrivals hall at Heathrow and simply filmed real people greeting loved ones. Not one hug was scripted. Later, assistants with clipboards ran around asking for permission to use the footage.

What you see is real.

And the opening monologue nails something profound:

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport… It seems to me that love is everywhere… Often it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there.

That line matters.

Love is rarely dramatic enough for headlines. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t trend. It doesn’t spike ratings. But it is constant.

Fathers lifting children.
Friends collapsing into laughter.
Couples reuniting after months apart.
Grandparents gripping hands like they might never let go again.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth:

We don’t see what is everywhere.
We see what we look for.

The News Diet vs. The Real World

I have a dear friend who soaks daily in rolling news cycles. He regularly tries to pull me into discussions about the latest outrage, the newest conflict, the freshest collapse of civilization.

I don’t engage.

Not because I’m ignorant.
Because I’m selective.

Instead, I tell him to look up.

In a restaurant: couples leaning in close.
In an airport: someone waiting nervously with flowers.
In a hotel lobby: children racing into a parent’s arms.

No script. No camera crew. Just life.

Is there hatred in the world? Of course.
Is it amplified? Constantly.
Is it the dominant human experience? Not even close.

Hatred is loud.
Love is steady.

And your RAS will amplify whichever one you repeatedly feed it.

The Antidote Practice

If your environment feels heavy — too much outrage, too much argument, too much “the world is doomed” — take an antidote.

Go sit in a hotel lobby as if you’re waiting for someone.

Watch.

Notice the hugs.
Notice the relief.
Notice the laughter after long journeys.

I don’t recall ever seeing a hotel lobby full of people fighting. I’m sure it happens somewhere. But statistically? It’s joy. Reunions. Relief.

If a hotel isn’t your thing, try:

• An arrivals hall
• A beach
• A park
• A café
• A train station

Just observe.

Not cynically.
Not academically.
Curiously.

Yes, a cynic will say, “But hotels get bombed.”

True.

And millions of hotels host millions of joyful reunions every single day without incident. That doesn’t make the news.

Your perception of the world is shaped less by what exists — and more by what you repeatedly attend to.

The Quiet Recalibration

This isn’t about denial. It’s about proportion.

If you look for hatred, you’ll find it.
If you look for connection, you’ll find that too.

The question is not, “Which one exists?”
The question is, “Which one do you want your mind rehearsing?”

Because here’s the thing:

Love doesn’t disappear because it isn’t trending.

It’s at the arrivals gate.
It’s at the dinner table.
It’s in quiet acts no one films.
It’s in the phone calls made in final moments — not of revenge, but of affection.

If you make the effort to look, I have a sneaky feeling you’ll discover something radical:

Love actually is all around.

You just have to tune your RAS to notice it.

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A Better Default Setting

Here’s another gem from Jill Bolte Taylor (My Stroke of Insight) that I come back to often:

“For me, it’s really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with a manual about how to get it right… Feeling deep inner peace and sharing kindness is always a choice… Forgiving others and forgiving myself is always a choice… Seeing this moment as a perfect moment is always a choice.”

That’s not “be nice and everything will be fine.”
That’s power. That’s response-ability. That’s you taking the controls back from the autopilot.

And if you want to move from quicksand to the life you actually meant to live, you’re going to need one key discipline:

Reprogram your RAS on purpose

Your RAS will keep feeding you more of whatever you repeatedly consume — not because it’s evil, but because it’s efficient. It’s a pattern-recognition machine. A loyal assistant. A slightly over-enthusiastic intern.

So if you keep bathing it in:

• panic headlines
• rage content
• doom-scrolling
• violent “shoot ’em up” inputs
• people yelling at each other for sport

…it will quietly assume: “Ah. This is what we’re into.”
And it will filter your world accordingly.

The one-week experiment (do this like you mean it)

For seven days:

• no TV news
• no violent games
• no “fight for entertainment” content
• no outrage videos
• no algorithm-fed hate snacks

Not forever. Just a week. Long enough to feel the contrast.

Then replace that input with what you actually want more of:

• love
• laughter
• calm confidence
• beauty
• success
• great design
• great music
• great conversations
• inspiring humans doing brave things

Your nervous system will notice. Your sleep will notice. Your patience will notice. Your creativity will notice.
And your RAS will start scanning the world for that.

Feed your brain a better story

I’ve always seen the world like one big musical. At any moment I half-expect a stranger to break into choreography in aisle seven.

And every now and then… life delivers.

That’s why I love a great flash mob clip: it interrupts the trance. It reminds people they’re not just commuters and consumers — they’re alive. They’re social creatures. They’re wired for joy. A crowd can become a community in thirty seconds if someone flips the script.

That’s the point: we’re all on a stage, and we get a vote in the character we play.

Media is very good at renting your fear

Most of our fears come preloaded: snakes, spiders, being trapped, being hunted, being shamed, being cast out. That’s ancient survival software — and it kept your ancestors alive.

Modern media knows exactly how to poke that software.

So you’ll get minute-by-minute alerts about:

• the rare disaster
• the trapped miners
• the crashed plane
• the “new spider the size of a baby’s face”

(And yes — headlines like that have absolutely been real.)

Meanwhile, in the same year:

• tens of millions of flights land safely
• hundreds of people climb Everest
• medical breakthroughs quietly save lives
• strangers help strangers every day without a camera crew

My prescription isn’t denial. We still need survival instincts.
My prescription is balance — and balance starts with what you repeatedly expose your mind to.

Stop outsourcing your worldview

Don’t build “your” opinions from headlines, hot takes, or the one belief system you happened to be born near.

I often get messages like:
“I’m a Christian — how does this work for me?”

My answer is always the same:

Have you chosen that based on a real comparison of alternatives… or was it simply the default setting of your childhood environment?

I’m not asking that to be provocative. I’m asking because your RAS will defend your defaults unless you deliberately introduce it to wider data.

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And now wherever you are, whoever you are, right now go give someone a hug.