One of Those Days

Feeling lonely, feeling sad. It's one of those days. Yesterday I was sick, feeling out of sorts, like I did when I had that mini-stroke a few months back. It was a good day at work, but sales are down. Fear all around me. People seeing their homes going each day they don't make money, wondering how they're going to feed their kids, get insurance, have food to eat. Food pantries running out of food. Street lights turned off in one town because the town couldn't pay it's bills. No jobs. The computer got them. Fear is contagious. You see it everyday in the eyes of people you see on the street. Educated unemployed, standing in the same lines with the less educated. This recession is the great equalizer. It doesn't discriminate. Doesn't care if you've got a graduate degree or an eighth grade diploma.
I saw a homeless man on the street today--young, white, healthy looking--not the sort you'd of seen just a few years ago. Seeing him makes me feel vulnerable, because if he's there, how long before the rest of us who are not young, not white, not healthy will end up there with him, with a sign in our hands, asking for money.
The world economy is falling and it's scary.
I see people asking for help from the Democrats, the Republicans--but there are no answers, only promises written on the wind.