It's confirmed. Recession is here. Apparently, this unwelcome phenomenon has been giving the world markets hints of its pending 'arrival'. The subprime crisis was a HUGE hint. But did we listen ...or take note? Maybe, for some. But most of us were living in a kind of denial - hoping, just hoping, to make that ONE dollar more and so the market we stayed and dabbled some more .... happily wheeling and dealing ...until some major banks and security firms started insolvency proceedings. While, (this is the ridiculous bit) the various authorities - the business media, market leaders, institutions, businesses, salary earners, research analysts sat about debating on the 'definitions of recession', the effects of the subprime and most of all, denying the looming prospects of recession round the VERY NEAR corner.
It's like developing symptoms of a bad cold - the sneezing, the running nose the watery eyes, the works and yet denying that you're going to fall ill any time soon.
We're all affected. In one way or another, to a lesser or larger extent. Admittedly it's anxious, stressful, scary times. No one spared!
And its important to properly de-stress just to stay sane. Because each morning all that's on the news and daily updates are but more gloom and doom. Enough bad news I fear, to send many reeling and fleeing or suffer a heart attack - under the worst circumstances.
And so we scrap. At least I do. To forget the great miserable plague of gloom and doom. All that absorping moments of cutting, pasting and tweaking. In those moments of simple pleasures, dreams thrive, creativity flows and the satisfaction of watching paper bits 'come to life'. A perfect panacea for a such maddening times.
It's like developing symptoms of a bad cold - the sneezing, the running nose the watery eyes, the works and yet denying that you're going to fall ill any time soon.
We're all affected. In one way or another, to a lesser or larger extent. Admittedly it's anxious, stressful, scary times. No one spared!
And its important to properly de-stress just to stay sane. Because each morning all that's on the news and daily updates are but more gloom and doom. Enough bad news I fear, to send many reeling and fleeing or suffer a heart attack - under the worst circumstances.
And so we scrap. At least I do. To forget the great miserable plague of gloom and doom. All that absorping moments of cutting, pasting and tweaking. In those moments of simple pleasures, dreams thrive, creativity flows and the satisfaction of watching paper bits 'come to life'. A perfect panacea for a such maddening times.
As for the card I got the other day (see picture), I found myself laughing inspite of the stressful circumstances.
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