Fluctuations in forward estimates and predictions on COVID-19 cases, climate change etc. have left the stock market and petrol prices for dead. Extracted answers become fact and gospel in the minds of gullible people. Doom and gloom is the best- selling commodity. The current lock-down and travel restrictions have resulted in a substantial reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Climate change activists have all but fallen silent, wouldn’t it be noble of them to make a positive comment?
Guru, MP, & Prophet seedlings, striving for recognition in the quest for status are plentiful.
The gradual eradication of small business has been under way for decades. The government has now ordered most small and medium sized businesses to close while large multi-national corporations are allowed to operate. Does the COVID-19 know the difference? Interestingly, these corporations, are now being portrayed as saviours, for hiring.
Panic buying has become a rapidly escalating world-wide phenomena. Have we learned from Wall Street, where panic is the norm? Has the ‘competition mentality’, ‘win at any cost’ mindset blown out of proportion? Winning, in this instance means snatching up groceries before anyone else can lay their hands on it.
Here is an extract from my book ‘Journey of Life’, Chapter 20, ‘Competition & Success’: For many people life is about winning and losing, or success and failure. When we view success for what it really is, i.e. a journey (part of the journey of life) and not a destination, we are able to enjoy life at a higher level. Most of the ‘food for thought’ I have to offer the world is manifested in my 2 books, so ‘read on’ and enjoy the journey.
P.S. Let me add a copy of a letter I wrote to the editor of the ‘West Australian’ newspaper that was published in the early 2000’s, after the government had finally admitted that the country was in recession.
‘Good recession’
Now that the R-word as been spoken I believe the time has come to reflect and review the situation realistically and discover the benefits of a recession. Let’s face it, we live an extravagant lifestyle where luxury has become the norm. We live in mansions, not houses, drive cars that out-perform our needs and buy goods on a whim that soon end up on the rubbish tip. A recession is usually a return to reality and moderation. It allows us more time to educate ourselves, acquire some spiritual wealth and who knows, we might even re-discover the art of having a face to face conversation, free of charge, rather than texting or talking on the mobile phone whilst standing in the checkout queue with yet another
gratuitous item.