- The early sixtyish man watched the watershed New York Stock Exchange thoroughly crater in less than a month’s time, and his instinctive reaction to this ongoing debacle materialized in a matter of a few days, if not hours: I need to batten down my financial matters NOW, I need to spend markedly less money NOW, and I need to weather this economic calamity all the way through to its conclusion starting right NOW!!! I need to spend less less LESS money until the Stock Market and, generally speaking, the national economy as a whole recovers substantially and things ultimately return to “normal”, whatever normal might be. And so our late middle-aged securities maven obdurately resolved right there on the spot to follow this financially prudent course of action and spend less money until the dire monetary situation found a modicum of traction, gradually achieved solid footing, and ultimately resolved itself. Doesn’t that sound logical? Doesn’t that conservative financial strategy make sense and resonate with you, the reader? Isn’t that the right and proper and intelligent way to address a pressing monetary matter like the one I just described? Meanwhile, the sexagenarian’s life clock continued to tick along relentlessly and unheeding with a mind of its own, wholly oblivious to abstract concepts such as normalcy, fairness, logic, and blindly waiting for desired outcomes. It didn’t give a rat’s ass about rankling human problems; it’s only mission was to move mesmerizingly in a rightward direction while never stopping.
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