Time to stop crying and start fighting!

Reading newspapers and media headlines you’ll be forgiven to feel this is it. This is the end of everything as we know it. They are full of doom and gloom, leave no hope, offer no way-out, in captions after caption we are made to feel this is it, it’s all over!!

Really!! You mean to tell me our current economic crisis is worse than the 20th Century Depression, WWI and WWII – worse than the Black Death and all the other wars man raged on his fellow man throughout history.

If this economic downturn is going to finish us off, what does it say about us, our tenacity and our self-worth?

Times are hard, actually they are very hard, I feel and see it around me daily, and I happen to live in an affluent part of the capital. So I can imagine how hard it must be in less well-off parts of the country. I’m neither blinkered nor naïve and do know there are those who even before the economic downturn, life for them is an ongoing daily struggle. There are those who find making ends meet a continuing challenge and with the current high inflation and shrinking incomes meeting daily expenses is impossible for many.

But we cannot be defeatist and give in, we cannot accept its over and surrender – we must draw from whatever gives us hope, strength and resolve to pull together and carry on to ride this tide and come away victorious, because we can and we are worth it.