Wisdom for the credit crunch from Dickens: “My other piece of advice, Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber, “you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and, in short, you are for ever floored. As I am!”
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That puts things into perspective doesn't it?
Yes it does. I've been thinking about houses a lot. Last night there was a great programme on the radio about how wedded the Brits are to their houses, how they now need them to provide for their old age, etc, etc. And how the young will struggle to get even a toe hold on the ladder
And yet it seems the societies that are happiest of all often have the least - the
ones living in the most temporary housing.
Like those people on the Ganges delta - I meant to say how much I'd enjoyed that too.
I hope cancer patients, and other people with pressing and serious matters on their minds, do stop worrying about property and provision etc, but it sometimes seems all this worry about such things and how the children will cope etc could also feed into the anxiety and ill health of vulnerable people too.
Yes I think it does worry those needing long term nursing care. Hopefully if you're terminally ill your life insurance will pay off any outstanding mortgage.
And you're right most mothers just worry about their children. I'm so pleased I got my son through school.
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