Springing back
I don’t know about you, but I am really tired of hearing so much bad news about the economy. NBC Nightly News was doing a series of good stories where people are helping people and the good things that are happening because of their actions. It was called “Making a Difference.”
I wish we could hear more about people making a difference and less about what a bad state we are in. We can talk ourselves into a hole deeper and deeper or we can get going and do whatever we can to help ourselves and others get back on their feet. Ultimately, we are consuming some things so we have to have some production to feed, clothe and take care of us. As we cut back to make ends meet, we are rightfully being more careful about what we spend.
However, I do think you can’t hold a good person or a good country down. I live in the southwest and the good folks here have always been resilient. I remember the 80′s when the oil bust happened and we lost a lot of oil jobs and people moved away because they couldn’t find jobs. Others took whatever work they could find to get by. I was personally laid off a couple times. I remember interviewing accountants for a job several years later and they had been doing any other work but accounting until accounting jobs were available again. I think if we partner up to help each other that one by one we can make a difference in our lives and ultimately the economy. I’m tired of hearing what we can’t do. I’m just going to do what I can every day to keep going.
