A Tumultuous Year

D. is getting tired of tragedy. 2009 seems to be a year of seemingly constant turbulence, encompassing financial markets, housing markets, job markets, celebrities and ill fated air craft... and it's all starting to get to me.

The sky, it seems, is always falling - it is just a condition of the new age. Every time you almost catch your breath, some well meaning reporter releases a story detailing how things really aren't getting much better, despite appearances.

Warren Buffett was the most recent voice of despair letting us know that things really aren't going to improve all that soon. Yesterday I read a story which, though it mentioned many positive things about the Florida housing market, made sure the headline led with bone chilling gloom and doom.

Untimely prominent deaths of generational icons. Mysterious crashes with unanswerable questions and unlocatable clues. A relentless hemorrhaging of jobs. Failure of banks. Closing of businesses - both large national ones and small, local varieties. Would-be pandemics. The recent death of two family members. Two otherwise healthy friends diagnosed with end stage cancer in their early 40s.

Add to that constant academic pressure, work stress and a significant other who is frequently gone and I have just one word to say:

E N O U G H!

Things must improve now...