Just have to say...

The economy probably never got so bad until people started saying it was bad.

I know it's probably going to be heavily analyzed in the future, and all sorts of things are going to be said about it. I'll write this just for the (my, I guess) record. People probably stopped spending when they started hearing about how bad things were. Doesn't mean it wasn't going to get as bad eventually, but talking about it probably changed a lot of people's decisions.

Forgetting

Ms. Williamson wrote in the book I mentioned previously that the mantra we should really be following is to let go. Okay. But letting go is a strategy that starts to smell. Isn't it relinquishing the urgency of now? Won't I lose what little I've grasped from the situation at hand? Letting go is awfully hard right now.

Letting go will feel like forgetting. I'm afraid that to relax is to not learn how I may better conduct myself. Will I suffer less in the future? Will I make the same mistakes? How long will I have to keep trying?

And ultimately, won't we all forget?