It'll be OK

[degringolade]

 
 

I am thinking that things are going to start accelerating downwards in the next month.  I am hoping that someone will figure out that we are going to have to change the way that we live, but that pitch sure doesn’t sell here in the land of entitlement.  There are going to be limitations on what is available and we will need to adjust.

But right now the drinks are still being served and folks are still concerned about their Sunday brunches.  I suppose that while I realize this awkward little fact and to be blunt I sure ain’t looking forward to the process as I am fond of my sunday brunches.  

Look, I think that things aren’t going to be going up anytime soon.  That doesn’t mean that things are going to be going to shit, it just means that you will need to spend some more effort and money to get what you need.  It also means that wants will need to be more rigorously prioritized and maybe just maybe a champagne brunch isn’t in your future for a month or year or so.

There really isn’t that much out there that you “need”.  But somehow, through our wealth and general obliviousness, we have not just blurred the border between needs and wants, we have pronounced that having such a border is just this side of immoral.

You don’t need that much.  You probably want quite a bit.  I’m just saying that you better get used to that little bit of unpleasantness.  

You’ll be fine.

Comments

[thundertwist]

what do u think about hope?

[degringolade]

We'll be fine, Hope is an expectation, it isn't a right. We will get through the process and there will be parts that are great and parts that will suck.

If you think that hope means only good things are allowed, that isn't hope, that is delusion.