When Things Are Going Down

An odd feeling became apparent the other day. I have not wanted to go to the movies. All the movies I would want to see have tended to be the depressing kind. The Changeling and Appaloosa being two of them. But they tend to be too serious, usually the kind I like, but not for these bad news days.

I didn't realize this until the other day. I thought about going to see The Changeling since I am a big Clint Eastwood fan. "Nah," came my response. "I don't want to see a depressing, challenging movie." I then kind of did a mental jump to the thoughts of the economic news for the past months that even the two-week upper from the election could overcome. I have stopped looking at my retirement savings. I try not to think about five years from now when I turn 65 even though I don't plan on retiring then.

I remember thinking way back in August that the news media was helping make the economic news worse. I don’t know if things wouldn’t have sunk so low if the media had not over-hyped the BAD NEWS that kept coming day after day. I have a hunch that underneath the hype was a true bit of BAD NEWS that no one is talking about to this day- the sad shape that greed has gotten us to. (But that’s for another day.)

All I know is that today things are not pretty. Which is when I realized that the popular movies of the Depression were often the glittery musicals or the feel-good stories. Maybe I will need to do a couple of things, at least until I decompress from all this.
1) Back off on checking the news and the Dow Jones average.
2) Stop watching even the Daily Show or Colbert for underneath the humor is the truth of what is happening.

Oh yes, and I have also re-activated the Christmas music on my iPod. It is good to be reminded on a regular basis that the world is still the creation of a loving Creator and that He once came to be with us in a time that may have been more like today than we can imagine.