Things just can’t be this bad all over.  It gives me an alarming feeling when I think of what is actually happening to me and every other member of this world.  We are going through tough times – but is anybody surviving?  I kind of feel a chill running down my spine when I think of what could happen to the generations of tomorrow – we carried on from what our forefathers left for us.  What will the erstwhile generations or the next gen as they are passionately called start with – the scrap that we are leaving them?  I’d be more than honored if I don’t leave them something negative to carry on with.

The worst point here is that I don’t see a silver lining anywhere around me – the economic crisis is staring down on me with wicked eyes.  The prices of almost everything that I need to shell off my pocket is sky rocketing – worse still I don’t know when I may be sent home never to come back.  Education, medical health almost everything is costing me a fortune.  Now I even think twice before I simply spend a few dollars on local transportation.  It is a very sorry state indeed.

The question that is going unanswered though, is what we expect to change if we continue our existing lifestyles.  Are we insane enough to think that a miracle will happen one day and then things will get rosier and healthier without each of us trying to do what we can?  In this era of technology do we still believe in mythological miracles?  We as educated individuals have a role to play during these critical times – and how we endure these tough times and try to give as much to the country as we can to ourselves is the test of our character and perseverance.

What we want now is to getting on our toes and become prodigies of parsimony and prudence.  The advice that thunders from all corners of the world, from all the professional financial analysts is that we need to be wise enough when we spend our hard earned money.  Buying or investing is a strict no now, as we don’t know if our stock markets are ever going to look up.  With the oil prices continue to crash, and the major world currencies seeing a down turn the thought of a progress – even a faint one is really skeptical.