My parents didn't raise me an Economist. Seems odd now considering they have a mature handle on their money.
When awaking this morning, I was on the can making sweet ripples with our local sewage system and thought about a post I wrote sometime ago. Specifically, it is this one. I actually liked that post and thought I had a decent grasp on things. Looking back, turns out that I couldn't have been more wrong ... and right.
Something about paradoxes has always intrigued me.
I encourage you, if still reading, to take a gander at that post. I don't normally stroke my ego any more than it needs to be before it runs out of skin, however I've grown to somewhat adore history and perspective.
The Cliff-Notes version had me predicting that things (Real Estate & Otherwise) would turn around in five months from me writing that post. Boy, was I wrong! I might as well have predicted Michael Jackson singing the National Anthem at the 2010 World Cup, with the US fighting for the championship. I might as well have predicted Gary Coleman being involved in a luring affair with Corey Haim in a TMZ Blog. In fact, I might as well have predicted the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment would be running for an important political seat in the state of Connecticut. Well, one out of three ain't bad.
Inherent in those words though, was a philosophy that I believe still holds true. That, of the cockroach. That, of survival.
We're egotistical (and perhaps I'm projecting a bit) beings in the first place. That's what has helped us to where we are. And now we think these times may be the most challenging, may be unprecedented, and may just be THE END as we know it. I don't think so, folks. And I'd dare say that this profession, on this forum, has egos that would turn Hollywood on its ear.
While we may not have to survive like the cockroach, it's a good lesson. Can you imagine going Quantum Leap into The Great Depression? Can you even fathom having to deal with the kind of crap that has went down on all these years on Earth, at various periods? One-Hunderd years from now some gibroni may be writing the same thing about us and now, but it will go down that we survived and thrived. And inevitably, we die. Because that's what we do. And we do it as well as we can.
That's what I liked about that post. I was wrong about the Economics, but dead-right on US.
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