Moving Forward

Times have chanced many of us are not just flirting with a new reality, we have been seeded into it. Moreover, many of us who live in states that were hit hard by the economic collapse such as Florida, Nevada, Texas, Mississippi and a few others, it looks like things will not be changing in the near future. If anything, with budget cuts looming overhead in many states things may get worse. Some of us have been fortunate enough to find jobs and even if they are not paying what we were earning before the recession began most of us are grateful that we have some form of employment. We are all too aware that there are people whose job search has entered its second or third year with no end in sight. There are people who have lost everything and those who are on the verge of losing things that they worked a life-time to have or to establish. Many are in the process of making life-style changes to fit the new reality.

Nonetheless, humans are resilient. The economic crisis and its aftermath will one day amount to a couple of pages in the back of history books, blogs or eBooks. Children will ask their parents, what was it like living in the great recession. And many of our children will sound like our parents or grandparents as they describe the hardships that they experienced as their parents looked for employment and tried to keep the family together.

This is why there will be some changes made to the Everyday Dilemmas blog. The changes are a way to reflect on the past and come to terms with where many of us are today. It will not be a place to finger point, lay blame, accuse any group or race nor a place to reject or support any particular political leader or party. It will be what it is and what a blog is meant to be a source of entertainment.

I am sure that there will be people who will not like what they read here as well as others who will feel differently. It is up to the reader to either stop reading or to continue to do so. As trying to please everyone is in itself its own dilemma.