Good morning SuperForesters,
When I tumbled out of my bed this morning I walked downstairs, squeezed some juice out of two oranges, baked an egg and put some bread on a plate. Breakfast, nothing out of the ordinary. But when I opened my newspaper (it’s Dutch) there was a two page long story concerning 2008 and 2009. To paraphrase, it said that it was only a matter of a few hours before the worst year in human history was about to begin, but apparently no one realized this. The writer even compared today with 12-31-1938, in ‘39 the Second World War began, but on the last day of ‘38 no one realized that the next year was going to be horrible.
The argument that was used to defend the thesis of 2009 being the worst is that there’s a credit crunch going on and that the world economy is running straight into a recession.I don’t think that a big part of the SuperForest readers read the story, simply because our analytics page says that the vast majority of our readers speaks English. But I can imagine a few people walking around with negative thoughts about tomorrow, about the coming year, about what the future holds.
One of the only reasons to be afraid of duemilanove (Italian for twothousandandnine) is that you have less money to spend. Everyone must reckon that a decrease in budget isn’t something you wish for, but in my humble opinion there are worse things that can occur to you. War, viral pandemic, natural disaster or nationwide corruption, all worse in my eyes.
And by the way, it’s a fact that the economic growth goes according to a wave movement. Seven years of increasing growth, seven years of declining growth; that’s probably Economics 101. So here are four rules concerning positivity, think about them when it’s not going that well with your bank account.
- Hope for the best outcome
- Go for the best outcome
- Expect the best outcome
- Be happy with whatever the outcome is
In other words, do whatever you can in order to reach something. So that when you achieve your goal and it isn’t fully satisfactionary you can say: “I’ve done everything I can”.That’s how I would try to cope with financial trouble, anyway.
But lets focus on something other than money, money isn’t the thing that keeps the world together, is it? (Though it is the impression the media gave me for the past half year, every newspaper contained at least one article on the stock markets). I’m not saying that money isn’t important, in the Western World living without money gets very difficult but it can also be very interesting, have you seen the excellent movie Into The Wild for example. It’s about a brilliant student that gives up all he has and then starts to travel to Alaska. Where he plans to live in the wilderness.
The film delivers a very good job at showing the things that are important in life (excluding possesions of course). Love, family, nature, relationships, passion, friends, dreams and ideals are sometimes forgotten in a world that spins around quotes and interest rates. But fortunately that’s where SuperForest comes in. For the time I’ve worked here I felt nothing but positivity, love, passion and dreams coming true. Whenever I get a bit gloomy about the things happening around me, about things that happen in the world I live in, I visit this page on the internet. A page that makes me realize that if you look hard enough, you’ll find more good than bad stuff.
All this wouldn’t be possible in the first place without ten excellent authors, of which I’m a proud part. SuperForest wouldn’t be possible without Jackson, the creator and driving force behind all our productions. You’re all awesome and I figured that the end of the year would be a good time to drop a digital ‘thank you’ note.
And then there’s you, the reader. Thank you for such an awesome year packed full with comments, positive critique, awesome letters and radical tips.
While the successor of 2008 is almost knocking on our front-door the only thing that lasts me to do is wish you an extremely happy, bright, healthy, sustainable, beautiful, loveable and SuperForesty 2009.
SuperForester Julius
Initially, we interpreted the T-Shirt Julius shared as a fantastical symbol of the mythological proportions that society has idealized Obama to be. He is depicted as a knight in a shining suit with a snazzy tie leading the country toward a brighter future.
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