Is your standard for good news (aka a white pill) small or big, personal or societal?
Is it lukewarm acceptance, such as: Humanity is continuing to muddle along and didn't destroy civilization in a nuclear war today, huzzah!
Or is it personal? I got a promotion/laid/new job/won at a tournament, etc..... Life's tough, but I'm doing okay because I made a difference for me.
Or is it metaphysical? Life is suffering due to personal attachments, I am working towards ending my worldly attachment to material possession. Meh.
Granted, people by nature are primed to focus on the negative. There's plenty of bad stuff in this world. Worse, some people are existentially nihilistic and like a cancer they spread their misery to others. They can't handle their own personal powerlessness in the face of overwhelming suffering that has always been the lot of mankind.
But my friends, all this will pass away, and what you do with life echoes through eternity.
I recently came across an old show from Mark Passio where he discussed "service to self", "service to others", and "service to the truth". Each person lives his or her life in one of these these frameworks. Events are cast into that particular framework and evaluated according to whether or not it advanced the service.
What I would add to this from personal research is that the framework is set by (and may even properly be said to be identical to) the individual's inherent level of consciousness, although a higher potential can be prevented from developing to that level.
Given that, if someone is happy because of their promotion or their new car, we should be happy with them and for them, rather than hold it against them as being a person of a lower consciousness. It may be possible they have developed as far as they are able. In fact, to hold it against them is itself a sign of lower consciousness.
Thus, a person at the highest level of development takes as "good news" that which serves the truth, however it personally affects them, those around them, or even society as a whole. IOW,
"Fiat veritas, ruat caelum"
That's kind of deep. I like it.
When life goes well, good news is anything that positively contributes to my family, friends, society, community, country, or the world at large in a measurable or meaningful way. Hope brings good news perpetually.
When life goes poorly and stress is high, good news is usually anything that is a relief, 'one less thing to worry about', 'good enough / holding steady' or something that comes in as a windfall or unexpected win. Political stuff is never good, and at best it's cynical.
Personal. Not worried about nukes or wars, it's all consume fear, total hoax.
Standard implies stationary...hence reasoning (good vs bad) keeping one stationary within the same conflict; no matter which side one chooses.
On the other hand...N(orth) E(ast) W(est) S(outh) implies a setting apart of center from circumference during motion.
Hence alternative instead of standard...
Echo (sound repeated by reflection) tempts one to ignore that sound doesn't repeat...it's those within choosing to alter (resonance) or reflect (dissonance).
Reason implies reflection; implication implies alternation. Reflecting good news vs bad news ad infinitum doesn't alter the conflict; it only destroys those within.
The "passing away" you mentioned above cannot be "stuffed"...it's ones consent which stuffs suggested information by another within ones mind/memory. That's where plenty/pele/to fill originates from.
Letting go of suggested clears ones mind/memory up, while dissolving the conflict of reason (good vs bad).
Rebrand this into "willing consent" and ask yourself at what moment ones free will of choice became "lukewarm"? Notice furthermore that this lukewarm choice was made before the acceptance vs denial conflict came to be.
How could anything not be per-sonos (by sound)? As in SOUND, adjective (Latin sanus) - "entire; whole"...
Getting implies seizing/taking hold of...how could temporary (life) within ongoing (inception towards death) get anything?
Aka forward (pro) motion...how could form (life) within flow (inception towards death) be moved forwards without ignoring something fundamentally crucial?
Aka "turn a mind" aka circular reasoning...
Exactly so.