[Rod_Cloutier]

I'm getting tired of waiting for the last shoe to drop. I was expecting economic and social collapse in Sept/October 2008, and it almost happened. Now things have stabilized. For how long? 6 months? 3 years?

I came across a link that shows that others 'out there' are also having to deal with 'crisis fatigue' :

http://www.co-intelligence.org/crisis_fatigue.html

Let me know what you think on this matter.

[IslandCrow]

Partly it is natural. We are not designed to live a long time at high stress:- high stress is meant to get us out of a tight spot fast.

It is also due to faulty analysis. Many here at PO.com have underestimated the underlying inertia that helps the system going. I think posters have been good at bringing to our attention problems in the system (and I am very grateful for a lot of the early warnings that I have got), but then the doomer rating seems to kick in, with the higher the doomer rate the faster the collapse will be. I think that many need to take down their immediate doomer ratings a notch or two. We will get there, but it might take a little longer.

Using the glass half-full vs half-empty, maybe we should wake up each morning, see from the news that the world has not yet collapsed and say "Thank you Lord that I have at least one more day to prepare in".

[Hermes]

I think it's probably similar to living with terminal cancer.

Sometimes it looks like the person is going to die suddenly... but then they hang on for a while. Then they seem to get better, then they seem to get worse. Everyone gets ready for the funeral... but then they pop back and are "doing great".

It's a roller coaster ride.

[vision-master]

Look at the World like a hoop. We are going full circle into another hoop bc we are ending our current one. The ending of one starts a new begining. Survival rate for mankind? Super low............

[Ludi]

I think it's not healthy to dwell in crisis mode. It may eventually cause stress-related illness. My suggestion is, get on with your life.

[Pops]

I'm with Ludi, try to make short, medium and long term, achievable goals and work toward them.

Address the most immediate task and deal with that but always remember your long term goal.

If you are always in crisis mode I think you either haven't made a plan or aren't working it...


Above all, if you are expecting Overnight Armageddon, I'd suggest you recalibrate.

[ReverseEngineer]

Just live every day as though its going to be your last one walking the earth. Take a deep breath, enjoy the sunshine. If the ATMs go dark tomorrow, so be it.

Don't think of it as a "crisis". Think of it as "Bill and Ted's Excellent Peak Oil and Monetary System Collapse Adventure".

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ill: It is indeed a pleasure to introduce to you a gentleman we picked up on Wall Street in the year 2008.
Ted: Please welcome, the very excellent Pigman...
Ted, Bill: ...MR. Dick Fuld!
[All the students applaud wildly for Fuld]
Ted: This is a dude who lost more money inn a single day than was spent on Welfare in a quarter Century!

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'J')ust live every day as though its going to be your last one walking the earth.