Just five minutes of scrolling through any social media feed is enough to send you back to bed, but that's because happiness doesn't get those sweet, sweet clicks. The truth is that for all the terrible things going on in the world, there are good things too. Society, like the Force, is a balance of dark and light. Here are five pieces of underreported good news to help you feel like you've rolled around with a bunch of puppies, because you could probably use that right about now.

5 A Nonprofit Has Cured Hundreds Of Cases Of Blindness With A Four-Minute Surgery

Millions of people around the world suffer from cataracts, which is what happens when the proteins in the lens of your eye break down, causing everything to look like an '80s rock concert whose budget was primarily invested in smoke machines. This is less awesome than it sounds. Over time, it can lead to full blindness. Early detection is key, so as with most diseases, it's a bigger problem in poorer countries, where people don't have access to regular medical care.

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At least, it was. Tear down that picture of Chris Evans in your bedroom, because there are a couple of new dreamboats to get familiar with. Dr. Sanduk Ruit and Dr. Geoff Tabin started the Himalayan Cataract Project to aid people in impoverished countries with a procedure that can be performed over an average commercial break. The surgery involves making a small incision in the eye and removing the cloudy lens. It's then replaced with a contact lens made out of plastic that's inserted behind the cornea. That's it. A snip and a pop, and boom, get ready to see the crap out of stuff -- loved ones, sunsets, this trailer for a movie called Knives Out. They can drink it all in through their eye-mouths. It takes all of four minutes for most patients. Jesus himself probably took longer to heal folks.

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That's actually a pretty apt comparison, because last year, the organization took its services to a leper colony in Eastern Ethiopia. Hundreds of people lined up. Some had to set up camp for days to get the operation. The doctors didn't leave them out in the cold, though. Coordinators gave them food, which is a service you definitely won't get at an Apple product launch -- and unlike any Apple product, the lenses they use only cost $4. For the price of four bags of Corn Nuts, someone can see for the first time in years. Granted, Corn Nuts are delicious, but you've really got to go with the cure for blindness on this one.

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This is a major asset in countries like Ethiopia. There just aren't that many eye doctors for a country of over 100 million people, so untreated vision problems contribute to immense poverty there and in similar regions. If the treatment goes mainstream, it could help people everywhere see better. We're making progress toward a future wherein every single human will be able to watch Knives Out -- which, we can't stress enough, looks super dope.