We Will Survive …

Well, since the world

didn’t end on December 21^st let’s examine the current state of
affairs.

1-     
We survived the “once in a life-time”
Superstorm Sandy and, although we found that we need electricity to survive we
also learned how to help our neighbors over many a rough patch. We learned that nothing can withstand the pent up anger of Mother Nature and to assume that we can plan our way around it is sheer folly!

2-     
We survived the presidential election and we learned that no matter who sits in that chair in the oval office the world will keep spinning on its axis because what will be; will be.  Try as we may to foster our own agenda of what should be and what should not sometimes things just happen.

3-     
We survived the greatest recession in nearly a century and, according to the media, we’re still standing.  Experts in the field know that almost one in
every five of us is un-employed or under-employed, overall earnings are stalled
while expenses continue to spiral out-of-control, but we are still here to tell
the tale and remember the good times.

4-     
We survived technology’s every tightening grasp on reality. Many of us
find our cell phones more important that the intimate relationships in our life
and some of us don’t understand that while a GPS can’t tell you how to get to
your final destination it also means that someone, somewhere is tracking where
you are going and is able to use that information for whatever purposes that
they want.

5-     
We survived the ever increasing bombardment of advertisement that no bounds and that has lost all sense of fairness or decency. Commercials pop-up
everywhere; there are commercials woven right into your favorite TV show, heck,
there are even TV shows that are nothing more than one long commercial
advertisement but we keep right on watching and buying the products. Hey, wasn’t the original idea behind cable TV, pay TV, that there would be no commercials because you were paying to watch the programming?

6-     
We survived another day in today’s fast paced modern society where the family is torn apart by the demands of duel wage earners, foreign cars, data service plans and the need to give our children everything that they desire except our time. 
Remember the TV show “Leave it to Beaver?” What an idyllic lifestyle Ward, June and the boys had.  One job that didn’t push Ward to the brink of insanity with demands for more, one family car (made in the USA,) the boys attended a safe neighborhood school and no one was allergic to peanuts and everyone had a fair chance to succeed. For a moment, let’s compare our own lifestyle to that of Ward and June and I think you’ll grasp the
difference.

But we survived and life to fight another day, as the saying goes. 
So’ let’s “raise a glass to the New Year and remember that things could
be worst.

- Patrick Ingegno can be reached at inner-circle@optimum.net or www.innercircledebtsolutions.com