For the past few years, the world has been a painful mess. You open the news wishing to find positive things, but the headlines offer only more despair.
However, just because mass media paints a grim picture of our times, that doesn't mean it's all hopeless.
Recently, Redditor ItsTheCess wanted to cheer themselves up and asked: "What are some good things happening in the world right now?" Immediately, people flooded them with wholesome things, and we at Bored Panda believe this post, together with the replies it has received, is exactly what we need to start the week with a smile on our faces.

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Earlier today i saw a post of a woman asking where she can get free menstrual products and the very first comment was 'sent me a amazon wish list, I got you girl!' And that really restored my faith in humanity
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#23

There's a woman (forgot where she lives. I think in Africa) who started collecting plastic waste and compressing all of it into bricks for roads and giving people jobs. They're still trying to perfect it or get it to last longer, because it will erode no matter what, but it's still limiting the space where all the plastic is.
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#24

The amount of machines in development to clean up plastic pollution is just crazy. Want a large boat patrolling the oceans? What about a small drone for busy waters? A gate stopping plastic in rivers from entering the oceans in the first place? You name it, someone is working on it.
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#25

There have been advances in vaccine tech that will likely cut development time from up to twenty years down to 1-2 years.
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#27

In recent drug trials, Dostarlimab had a 100% success rate in treating colorectal cancer. 18 out of 18 participants were in remission 1 year from being administered the drug. Enormous news as this is the closest we’ve ever been to a cancer “cure”.
Edit: i misremembered the number of participants. It’s 14 out of 14 not 18 of 18.
Article [here](https://ascopost.com/news/june-2022/unprecedented-100-of-first-14-untreated-patients-with-rectal-cancer-respond-to-pd-1-blocker-dostarlimab-gxly/)
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#28

Johnny Depp’s victory is a promising sign for other men in abusive relationships.
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#29
My son.....he was born yesterday. We got lucky to find out Walmart got a supply of formula in this morning too. I may sound selfish but I might have a better job by the end of the week to afford this new bundle of joy
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#30
New Lyme disease vaccines are on the way, accelerated thanks to the knowledge learned from making the Covid vaccine.
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#31

Canada and Greenland (Government of Denmark) have just come to a peaceful resolution of the 38 year territorial dispute over the highly coveted Hans Island, where they've agree to share the island and split it right down the middle.
This is of course the famed "Whiskey War". The main aspect of it (swapping schnapps with whiskey or vice versa), I imagine, will remain in some part as a celebrated border-crossing tradition.
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#32
I heard on the news, a guy spent a whole year planting his blind wife’s favourite flowers, and that really warms my heart
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#33
Trees are blooming, wild animals reproducing, bees making honey. Nature is beautiful man.
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#34

Germany will reform its laws surrounding identification to better support the rights and safety of transgender people.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-unveils-plans-for-simpler-legal-gender-change-process/a-62315345
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#35

My guava plants produced fruit, I had so many tomatoes that I gave some to the neighbors, gave some to the chickens and ducks, and still had lots left over for salads and sauces. I got about a hundred cucumbers. And found out my new puppy likes to steal ripe tomatoes off the vine (which sounds like a bad thing, but they were just going to rot there cause I can't pick them in time, so good job Bleu)
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#36
Psilocybin therapy is helping people overcome addiction, depression, and anxiety.
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#37

More and more nations accept trans and gay people, women's rights are becoming an acyual matter and equality is becoming possible
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#39
The ocean cleaner that everyone said wouldn't do anything years ago has carried itself into an outstanding success!
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#40

Advances in stem cell research.
More awareness on mental health and treatment.
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