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Post details: Hard times, sad times... but try to keep on keeping on...

11/25/08

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Hard times, sad times... but try to keep on keeping on...

I do a meme every Sunday called "Blog Your Blessings"... which, as a devout agnostic, seems kinda silly, but it isn't... because I see a lot of things in life as "blessings" without having to tack on any dogmatic principals to them... Things such as my appreciation of nature, the smile on my kids' faces, and enjoying the company of my wife... all blessings.

That said, one of my blessings is that, thus far, the global economic issues have not truly affected my household... nor has it done so in any major or horrific way to any of my friends and family yet...

That said, my online friends... many of them... are not so lucky... and this has meant helping not one, but two people who are living my dream sadly escape their own dream to concentrate on necessaries... Translation: I'm helping a couple of people get ready to sell their own double-decker bus.

I know, this MIGHT seem like a "good thing" for someone with my aspirations, but sadly, fiscally, with me being the sole bread winner, we cannot afford to "rescue" these vehicles ourselves for the (reasonable) prices requested... all I can do is help tweak images and hone some text for ads to try and help these folks move on from a dream and look after what's needed...

Sad, sad, work...

I suppose, like I had to here, the first victim of an economic crunch is dreams... which is so very sad, but understandable... and it got me thinking...

In all honesty, I have NOT given up on our dream... but that's pretty easy for us as currently, the sum total to make things carry on "as is" is a whopping $0.00... because our dream is still just that... a dream... but what would I do if I had emergencies?

Well, I'm relatively young... and since I've lived through two recessions already in my short time on this rock, I would just put it on hold... store it for better times...

Sadly, the folks I'm helping, this isn't an option in many ways, but what I guess I want to say in my oddly optimistic way is that IF you can, hold on to any dreams... hold on to things that make you happy... the planet will weather this storm and there will be better times ahead.

Like I said, the two folks I'm assisting are in a difficult position... and difficult decisions have been made... but I hope, beyond hope, that many of you, like me, might have just enough blessings to hold on tight for a year or so... and wait... because financial downturns are always cyclical... and honestly, things will improve.

Sorry to be so "apple-pie-in-my-eye" today... perhaps I could be labelled as being a touch warm and fuzzy... but when you have dreams like ours, and have to help folks like I'm doing, you get a little misty about better times... and see that the bad times... and bad things... are transient.

Buck up folks, and keep those dreams alive! We're going to!

Oh, and if you're wondering... I'll post the ads when/if the two owners allow me to advertise here for them.

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Allow me to start with we do not own nor are we selling a bus. Just had to get that out...

This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained a happier outlook on life by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items which, at the time included items about London removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try an "online" appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very youthful and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

Well, I'm pretty sure you figured it out... we had limited succes in this venture... and the youngest has now reached an age where she is more traditionally "teenaged" cynical than much else about the world, which isn't a dreadful thing... but there's a "good news" portion to this... our personal situation with money is better, life has improved, and some people really liked my rambling here... so, I decided to keep things going... Yes, I will "give up" on asking for help on a bus... and have to give up on even trying as hard to get the bus through online means... and yes, be far more realistic... but I don't mind this "turn" of things as I actually enjoy venting, trying my hand at humour, and generally keeping on online presence outside my usual things.

Thanks to those who were/are "Busly Dream" enthusiasts... I suppose that our buses for now will be single-deck with the letters "TTC" emblazoned on them... but this blog will live as does our dream! (It's just a little quieter on that latter bit...)

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