Economy

I don't know about you but I am tired of hearing about our economy plummeting into the abyss. I thought I'd get away from it by switching from CNN to BBC and up pops "breaking news"...the American economy is basically in the crapper. What can I do about it? Besides, panicking for about 30 seconds before I realize that the grand total of my investment on the stock market is less than a monthly paycheck and I am too poor to have invested in a home to begin with...I don't know what I can possibly do. So, then I ask, why give me the information to begin with?

I have some better, less heart-attack worthy news, it rained this morning on my balcony.

The air smells like autumn, the sun is only slightly beating down, I have access to fair-trade coffee, and I only mildly want to murder the barking dogs next door. Seems like a positive day in the life of an average American. So I will most likely always live in an 800 sg. foot apartment for the rest of my life and I may not get to ever own a brand new car but c'mon if our economy falls we are still doing well compared to 98% of the world. The rich (meaning all of us on computers) could use a little shifting of the wealth--since we obviously can't or won't do it on our own.

I am off to stand in the rain.