Nighttime Alarmist Musings: Everything is DOWN!

The sky's gonna fall!

Everything is down! Bitcoin is down. The stock market is down. The router in our basement is down. Hive is down. LEO is down. The auto-voters are down. Sales are down. The Chinese real estate market is down. The Internet is down.

Surely, the world must be coming to an end! Right?

It never ceases to amaze me just how much — and how easily — people seem able to freak out over what ultimately amounts to pretty "normal" events on the greater scale of human experience.

Oh, I'm not thinking myself special and somehow exempt. Like many, I have also been watching "The Situation In China" which seems to be at the root of everything being down at the moment. But that's still a "same old" story: Create a bunch more of something than people actually need, and you'll end up with a broken market.

Personally, I am feeling a bit down today because the diamond drill bits I purchased to drill holes in my painted beach stones are too thin to fit the chuck of my rotary tool. Which means having to wait a little longer while a new adjustable chuck is in the mail.

Something that is not down is the size of our electric bill. Or the tax valuation of our house, which determines our property tax bill. Funny how that works...

But I am digressing...

Sometimes it truly feels like the world includes a lot of people who simply enjoy "living in a state of feeling freaked out!" It's almost like it is possible to be addicted to the sensation that comes with something really bad having happened.

Personally? I'd just as well none of all this bad stuff happened. I wish people would just get on with their lives.

So what really ails us all?

I can't help but think that so many of our problems wouldn't be problems at all if people learned to take a longer view of everything that happens.

We freak out because something bad happens today... and then we freak out (over having freaked out!) when the trend of the really bad thing reverses tomorrow.

We look at this rollercoaster of todays and tomorrows as nervewracking... and yet, most of our lifespans will be 70-80 years or more, and by the time we get to the end of the line, we will have forgotten the number of times we freaked out because Bitcoin lost 8-10 overnight.

It's late, and I am tired... so I'm going to head off to bed, while remembering that this will most likely all have blown over, in six months from now!

Thanks for reading, and have a great remainder of your week!

How about YOU? Do you think looking too much at short term events leads us to freaking out more than is really warranted? Leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!

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