Thoughts on Entering A New Depression as an Adult

A recent article pointed out on Twitter about how a Depression will re-shape America gave me a moment's pause. My grandmother was a teenager/young adult during the last depression but I have never known more than a heavy recession in my lifetime. It made me wonder for a moment how it will impact my 46 year old life and outlook, in fact, many middle-aged American lives. I think going through something as catastrophic as a depression, if indeed anyone has to, is best as a child/teen. Young people are resilient and have less of a personal value tied up in survival at the time. They come out of a depression era, as in the past, even more resilient and stronger with sharper values and a better understanding of how to survive. Older people are crushed, broken, and beaten by such financial disaster. Many do not survive, and the ones who do may never recover. It is more than just ego it is an entire sense of self-worth.

My prayer for those of us in my age group looking down the barrel of financial collapse--may God give us the strength to take heart and hold tight to our beliefs, and sense of self-worth to come out at the end with a renewed understanding and strength to go on.