#274: The worst thing about this recession

You know what’s the worst thing about this recession? Okay, okay, there are many ‘worst’ things about this recession, but here’s the worst thing I’m facing right now.

It’s this feeling that no matter what I try, it is not going to make a difference.

The worst thing is not the actual feeling, but that often I catch myself agreeing with this feeling. I think, ‘what’s the use’ even though I know that this thought, unchecked, will soon lead to a belief of ‘nothing I do will matter’.

And we know how difficult it is to change a belief.

So, how do I fight this feeling? I think of the people who built the Panama Canal, of how often they faced ‘what’s the use’; of John Stevens, the Chief Engineer, who said, “Do something (even) if it is wrong, for you can correct that, but there is no way to correct nothing.”

Then I get up and I do something... even if it might be wrong.


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