- George Eliot
With the economic titanic having hit its iceberg, many, if not most, of us are wondering if there's any hope...any recourse. We're all wondering what tomorrow will look like but we're terrified by the shadows we see today. Bailout? Foreclosure? Repo? Recession? The Great Depression? Layoff? Unemployement? All these words and phrases have become as common as the word "Google" and it's not settling well with us.
While the seriousness of this situation and time we are in cannot be underscored, it is important to note that we are not helpless in this situation. We cannot be tossed and driven by the waves of each news report; we cannot be utterly destroyed by each ding on our credit report. We must, instead, recognize that we have a choice in all of this. We get to choose which attitude we will carry towards the challenges before us. Sure, it's pretty easy to say this when someone is not facing a repo, foreclosure, or unemployment; but be assured that we are ALL facing the same climate - some of us have just chosen to carry an umbrella in the middle of the rain.
There is no way to predict which way things will go in a good economy or in a bad one; in either one, there is only one predictor of success and peace - MY attitude...MY choices. Like you, I don't know how much more pressure my heart, my mind, my soul, my finances, or my sanity can take; but I do know that, when it's all said and done, it will all come down to the choices I make with regard to HOW I view each and every circumstance before me.
"Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human," said Liv Ullmann (1984). Let us each make being a human amazing by embracing the fact that we DO have a choice - even though there is nothing but darkness around us and we cannot see our way out...
