Some Things Can Only Be Stacked So High
Posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 0:01.
Arthur and I were talking about the future, money, investments. We do this often.
I cannot help being pessimistic about the future when I think of large financial endeavors. Arthur seemed frustrated at my hesitancy towards such endeavors, especially when I’m typically the big dreamer.
He finally said, “There will be a World War 3. There will be an economic downturn. There will be a nuclear terrorist attack,” and asserted certainty to the hypothetical bad scenarios that taunt me.
There is something about the path the world is going that seems wrong, that needs to be corrected, that’s off, that needs some catachesmic event to make right to a more sustainable way of living.
But Arthur is correct: worrying achieves nothing.
President Bush perpetually incorrectly states that we are conducting a war on terror. He confuses terror (an emotion) with terrorism (an act). However, I realize that I have to fight a personal war on terror. I can’t allow an emotion to prevent action. This is the personal jihad to which I do agree. It’s the only resolve that I feel five years later.
