Friday, September 30, 2005
Where Did The Year Go?
Tomorrow will be October 1. Three more months and it's goodbye 2005. Where did the year go?? The Chinese called it the Year of the Rooster or Chicken. General prediction is whatever conflicts there were in 2004 will just be carried over in 2005. That is playing it safe if you fancy yourself to be a seer.
To my mind it hasn't been a good year, or am I just being a pessimist? There are the wars in various parts of the globe. Stock investments were down if not in the doldrums. To top it, the hurricane season kicked in with a bang raising the prices of gasoline and hitting the ordinary worker where it hurts most. It follows that consumers confidence is down which would hurt our GDP.
The bright side? We still have three months and these are the months that people celebrate. Hopefully forgetting the sad tale of the first three quarters. We can still pick up the pieces. There's Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Occasions of family gatherings and reunions. A time of bonding, renewing ties and finding the strength to move on in spite of the trials and misfortunes. It is about finding your roots and rediscovering it. Reaffirming the belief that there are still people, close relatives and true friends, who will readily sacrifice themselves to help in times of need.
So my dear friends, let's pray that the remaining three months will bring us good cheers and hopefully Old Man Winter would be gentleman enough and cooperate...otherwise that'll be another story.
To my mind it hasn't been a good year, or am I just being a pessimist? There are the wars in various parts of the globe. Stock investments were down if not in the doldrums. To top it, the hurricane season kicked in with a bang raising the prices of gasoline and hitting the ordinary worker where it hurts most. It follows that consumers confidence is down which would hurt our GDP.
The bright side? We still have three months and these are the months that people celebrate. Hopefully forgetting the sad tale of the first three quarters. We can still pick up the pieces. There's Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Occasions of family gatherings and reunions. A time of bonding, renewing ties and finding the strength to move on in spite of the trials and misfortunes. It is about finding your roots and rediscovering it. Reaffirming the belief that there are still people, close relatives and true friends, who will readily sacrifice themselves to help in times of need.
So my dear friends, let's pray that the remaining three months will bring us good cheers and hopefully Old Man Winter would be gentleman enough and cooperate...otherwise that'll be another story.
