I realized that even though economic times are tough in the US, especially in southeastern Michigan where we all suffer along with the big 3 automakers, we will never truly know what it is like to be impoverished. I think of the homeless people that hit me up for money every day at work, the stories you read on the web and hear on the news, of the war torn cities overseas. I think of the Indian Dalit who still, in 2008, are treated as less than human. 

For all of these reasons I try not to let financial woes get to me. We really don’t have any. Everyone on the planet has their own cross to bear. For those in poverty the cross looks very heavy.