Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Here's that rainy day
Let's face it we're broke. It's nothing personal, it affects everyone in the world. I comfort myself with an old saying from the advertising business, "Death is the only disaster". Yes, but until then what do we do? Simple, go on living. maybe not the same old way. You may have to give up valet parking or Starbucks but the sun also rises and you have to rise with it. There is a scene in an old movie called "Haji Baba' where that distinguished Arab actor Raymond Massey says to Cornel Wilde (Baba himself) "What is the wisest thing you know?" And Baba answers, "Since debt is always whispering in your ear you must learn to live without the fear of money". Pretty wise thought.
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"It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty. You have thought so much about poverty - it is the thing you have feared all your life, the thing you knew would happen to you sooner or later; and it is all so utterly and prosaically different. You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring. - Orwell, Down and Out
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