GAIL'S BLOG

For Us There is Only the Trying

T.S. Eliot the Anglo American modernist poet wrote that. The rest of the line is “The rest is not our business”. So let’s try during this challenged period of the world to be kind to ourselves and others. The rest is not our business.

I am learning to be selective in what I read in the headlines, news reports etc. It is so hysterical and full of fear. It’s the great “what if?” What if I can’t pay this or that. What if the mud slide comes from the rain. What if the markets crash, my house loses value. What if I can never buy a house, have enough money to retire, get sick, fall down and break a hip, what if I lose my mind, my memory? What happens when I get old? What if I never can get out of student loan debt? What if I can’t see, …

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