Recession or Is it
The recession has hit home hard and everyone is feeling the effect–but I beg to differ. The problems with the financial system have always been there, they just got to a level where they could not be sustained. But who really has been most affected–is it you and me or those responsible for running our economies down–the Banks, their CEO’s, the Board, or who?
For many years past, people have lived in hardships and below their means and well others way over their means, this I have commonly heard in the UK; I think they are actually the biggest spenders on credit cards than any other country in the world. On top of all this some must survive on benefits and still leave beyond their means. I asked a friend of mine once why they don’t go out to look for a job, and the answer–you guest it: “why, when I can actually be better off on handouts?”
Anyway, the other day I was so bored I decided to go to the park with my little girl. On my way there I noticed that down the road some people were working on a house they just bought. The house was/is in a very bad state, so they are stripping it down, but you’ll never guess what happened– well let’s just say we’ll blame it on the recession.
I walked up to the guy sitting by the door, told him I was not wired or crazy, but I was wondering if I could help them out for free. The first thing he asked me was why would I want to work for free . . . ? Like I said, blame it on the recession . . . . Anyway, he asked me to go there Tuesday when his Dad is there.
Now, in normal circumstances I would have not done this; even if I did not have a job but maybe if it was my neighbour I would have gone across to help, but as things stand we have an excuse for doing anything and everything. In current conditions one would shop lift and blame it on the recession–and it has happened. When the word “recession” was first being mentioned, chickens where noticed to be going missing from the shelves in the UK and so they started tagging them.
So, you ask, why this has nothing to do with anything on my SITE well it does because it shows we also have a normal life. Some people out there think having a certain disease, you become detached from the goings on around us, maybe the recession will be the next big thing from HIV.
The worst, thing that can happen to anyone with terminal illness is not having anything to do and to have people treat them like they are walking on egg shells. When individuals or maybe let me say when I came to terms with my condition, it gave me a new lift in life to learn to appreciate each day as a gift and not a given right (stole that one from a song.)
