Reactionary

There’s bad news all around. Economic news is black. Newspapers are rife with predictions of a severe recession (which may have already started since recessions can only be diagnosed in hindsight). The Dow Jones swings ruthlessly every day. Watching the Bloomberg is an exercise in futility. The Arctic is melting. Osama bin Laden is still at large. More than a few people look at what’s said at presidential debates and cringe. Is the best behind us? Have we learned from history or is it set to repeat itself ruthlessly.

My stressors are fighting to outdo each other in which one will finally drive me mad. I’m closing in on settlement but things keep flying in out of the black space around me as if I didn’t have enough to do. Money, work, family, finance, housing. One after another after another after another. And no one to help. I gave up expecting a savior to rise out of the blue and help me a long time ago.

But still, lights still flicker on. There are plenty of people out there working hard every day to keep the course, to hold the wheel, to make the world better and rescue it from a fiery end. Isn’t it how it’s always been? Someone has kept the light on, alive, to start up the new dawn. And they’re not the easy answers. They’re not the do-gooders or the homeless advocates or the bleeding hearts or the bands of naive hippies. They’re smart and hip and cultured and they’re saving the world with their wit and skill and smarts and fearlessness and humor. There are plenty of them. Model that. Admire and copy that. Don’t you dare give up. Don’t you dare fold. Don’t you dare give in. Work harder. Be smarter. Think clearer (is that a word?). And for the sake of all humanity, don’t you lose heart.

That’s what losers do and losers never win.

October 16th, 2008 | Category: Life |  Print |  Send it | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL