It's been awhile since I last wrote. So much has happened since October 2008. For many people worldwide, our relative security collapsed. We stumbled through the hours dazed and confused. Rational planning seemed useless because of the employment situations, market plunges, and the nauseating feeling that we, individually and collectively, were teetering at the edge of a bottomless abyss.
For many of us, non-recession shocks kept piling on, heedless of our percarious balance. That wrenching feeling of utter loss of control can make babbling lumps of the most competent people we know.
An independent business owner loses one client after another at the same time her health insurance premiums shoot up. The 39 year old single mother of two is confined to a wheelchair, yet dozens of tests and doctors cannot nail down which type of neutopathy is responbile, therefore no treatment can be given. It's 0 degrees on a December night in St. Louis. There's a sleeping two-year old angel in the back seat; the car overheats for the first time ever; and there's no one to call to come and help. Spinning out out control...
And yet we cope, and don't do so badly after all. Hindsight can be so comforting!
Enduring, and continuing to deal with, such reversals in life have taught us a lot both about our own strengths and about becoming more flexible in our problem solving. Lately, I've come to realize that much of what we've learned is worth passing along - both to each other and to future generations.
With that in mind, I'll be writing my own ruminations about practical, empowering actions, attitudes and mantras for a few months, as well as the solutions and toe-stubbings others have experrienced.
It would be wonderful if you shared yours with us by way of "comments." Your stories might just be the help the rest of us need in the future.
More ruminations coming soon ~
Linda
Friday, February 19, 2010
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