So apparently, as I overslept today, the dow or whatever crashed 550 points or something ridiculous like that. MSNBC has lots of pictures of stressed out and horrified stockbrokers. Every page that has anything to do with finance is cluttered with headlines like, “Is your job on the chopping block?” “What states have the highest lay off rate?” “Economic Crisis” and my personal favorite, “World Financial Meltdown.”
Suddenly, in the midst of all this, I found myself ready to be a junior stock watcher. Green arrow on MSNBC? Yay, stocks are up! Red arrow? Panic! I don’t know what anything means on any of that nonsense, of course. The hubs owns like, 30 stocks. He bought them in companies he likes, not because he wanted to be rich but because…well, I don’t really know why, but suffice to say I’m sure my 401k has lost more than his stocks have. And he probably cares less about losing the stocks than my 401k.
Anyhow, I finally came to the conclusion that reading about all this was stressing me out more. What good is stressing out about the economy going to do? Nothing. It’s going to raise my highly medicated blood pressure and make me miserable. So, I say, laugh at the economy. Seriously, read the actual article behind the headlines. Stock anaylists are saying if you want to make money, get in the stock market now while prices are low.
Yeah, it blows right now. There’s no getting around that. I have confidence that things will turn around, for no reason other than they have to. So, for now, I’m sticking to entertainment gossip. Oh, and editing that pesky novel still.
Maybe I’ll just check those stocks one more time…
