Saturday, October 18, 2008

Journal the Intimate Story of Chaos

Grab your pen or keyboard. This is the time to journal about your experience of the current economic chaos. Your written record of this historic time will produce the only realistic, human vertion of what will eventually be told in cold, impersonal terms in our grandchildren’s school books.

But that’s one thing it definitely is not. Impersonal? Hardly.

This economic blitzkrieg will have maimed virtually everyone before it’s over. The young couple who loses their home, the abruptly terminated midlife exec or the older almost-retiree all stand stunned at the suddenness.

We each will experience it our own unique way, perhaps concerned about different challenges, or more likely a combination thereof, than a neighbor will. But how you deal with it will become part of your legacy as surely as your DNA.

Write it, help the future readers understand how devastating the uncertainty has been, how demoralizing to be forced to cut back on newspaper delivery, church donations, small gifts for grandkids and the sick feeling of the earth still quaking under our feet.

Tell them. And don’t be surprised to discover you feel some relief of tensions from writing it out!

Good luck with your writing ~

Linda