To quote directly from a book about recession tips;
"This is a bad time but it will pass quickly. We all know roughly why it's happened and to a degree we're all partly to blame, although the bankers deserve the lion's share of it obviously. So put down that cudgel and stop hanging around outside Northern Rock and let's not dwell on the past and look to the future.
By 2015 what is making you worry now will be but a distant memory and you will look back through the fog of time and wonder what all the fuss was about.
By 2050 there will most certainly have been another recession, possibly two, even three and you'll be an old hand at dealing with them. You will laugh in the face of monetary meltdown.
By 2100 you will almost certainly be dead. Sorry to be blunt but it's true.
By 2200 you will most likely be completely and totally forgotten other than an entry on a family tree, a profile on Facebook or a dusty photo on a wall.
By 5000AD it is likely that the human race will be extinst. Forget global warming, our explosive rate of population growth is not sustainable and nature will correct it. Nature corrects, that's what it does.
Sixty million years hence a new species will be digging up your fossilised remains, polishing them and putting them in a museum. Experts will speculate how you were probably green in colour, almost certainly evolved from gerbils and more than likely spent your time mindlessly attacking other humans because you only had brains, laughably, the size of a melon.
In just under a billion years time the earth will be engulfed by the sun as it expands in its final spectacular death throes. After that the sun will go out and become a purposeless lump of dull rock drifting in the frozen void.
So, you, everyone else around you, everything that is important to you right now is a temporary state of affairs that really has no significance in the greater universe. A few years of economic uncertainty is not going to affect that so you might as well pick yourself up, stop worrying, be nice to those around you and think of ways to get through it."
This is meant to make me feel better? I just feel fucking mortal and useless. Cheers book.
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Oliver
"In just under a billion years time the earth will be engulfed by the sun as it expands in its final spectacular death throes. After that the sun will go out and become a purposeless lump of dull rock drifting in the frozen void"
That's pretty deep..
Gagsy
Deep and fucking scary.