Looking back over 2018 it might be better not to speak of" ups and downs（起起伏伏）", but of" downs and downs". The year seems to have been one piece of bad news after another. It had terrible disasters-two were Typhoon Mangkhut（山竹）, which brought widespread damage to several countries this summer, and the wildfire in California, which took at least 85 lives.
In 2018 we also lost some of the top minds of humanity, including UK physicist Stephen Hawking, Chinese kung fu fiction writer Louis Cha Leung-yung, better known as Jin Yong, and Stan Lee, the US comic（漫画）book writer who created the Marvel universe.
This is why it comes as a warm surprise that, according to Google's" Year In Search 2018", people spent a lot of time searching for the "good" on the Internet. According to the video, which was released on Dec 12, people wanted to find answers to questions like "how to be a good friend".
In the video, we see the moment when a deaf child hears his mother's voice for the very first time. We see video of the Thailand boy soccer players after they were saved from a flooded cave with the help of volunteers from all over the world.
"We seem to miss all the good in the world, "wrote reporter Raka Mukherjee." The video shows us how, even in times ofadversity, there is good-if only one makes the effort to look for it." So, it may be true that the past year was full of "down" moments. But it doesn't mean that we're letting it bring us down with it. As is said in the video, "The world is filled with people trying to do the best they can."
