Anti crisis Proverbia
In the midst of crisis menus at restaurants, anti-crisis sales in the shops, my crisis-monitoring surveys at work, a crisis-shot served at the club around the corner...I found this anti-crisis proverbia:
I think some of us would like to start feeling crisis-blind. Down with crisisphilia. Remove the word 'crisis' out of our work, our reading and our news program. I like to think of myself as an optimist...but this crisis is as bad as it looks. If I go back in time, my political, economic gray matter stores the Asian crisis, the Mexican one, the fallout of Argentina...but I do not remember those days having major impact in the US or Europe, I do not remember those as vox populi crisis, they were matters for academic discussion. This crisis is a shared one. At least psychologically.
We all have a friend currently looking for a job and not finding one, or another one who was recently fired. We all started understanding that Dow Jones sounds like a jeans brand but it is not and that bank nationalizations means banks being bought by governments. We all wait for the sales to buy a good pair of boots or invest in a jacket that lasts more than a ZARA one. We value more saving money and started rethinking how much we want to pay in rent, groceries and miscellaneous expenses. We suddenly found ourselves in a website with financial planning tips.
We are in crisis mode. I am. Sometimes ON (let's save and appreciate job security) sometimes OFF (the crisis is not affecting me, I can buy those shoes and go visit my boyfriend husband every weekend). As a friend of mine told me the other day..."I do not know why, today, I woke up really worried about the crisis".
Psychology PhDs of the world?! wake up! Anybody interested in tracking the psychological consequences of the ongoing crisisphilia?
In a land with no credit, the man with cash is king.
Read: Those who have accumulated cash, good for you...those who haven't...save.I think some of us would like to start feeling crisis-blind. Down with crisisphilia. Remove the word 'crisis' out of our work, our reading and our news program. I like to think of myself as an optimist...but this crisis is as bad as it looks. If I go back in time, my political, economic gray matter stores the Asian crisis, the Mexican one, the fallout of Argentina...but I do not remember those days having major impact in the US or Europe, I do not remember those as vox populi crisis, they were matters for academic discussion. This crisis is a shared one. At least psychologically.
We all have a friend currently looking for a job and not finding one, or another one who was recently fired. We all started understanding that Dow Jones sounds like a jeans brand but it is not and that bank nationalizations means banks being bought by governments. We all wait for the sales to buy a good pair of boots or invest in a jacket that lasts more than a ZARA one. We value more saving money and started rethinking how much we want to pay in rent, groceries and miscellaneous expenses. We suddenly found ourselves in a website with financial planning tips.
We are in crisis mode. I am. Sometimes ON (let's save and appreciate job security) sometimes OFF (the crisis is not affecting me, I can buy those shoes and go visit my boyfriend husband every weekend). As a friend of mine told me the other day..."I do not know why, today, I woke up really worried about the crisis".
Psychology PhDs of the world?! wake up! Anybody interested in tracking the psychological consequences of the ongoing crisisphilia?
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