Chicken Little - THE SKY IS FALLING

These days I'm finding myself more and more feeling like Chicken Little with his infamous quote "the sky is falling".

As some, all or none may know I'm an independent loan processor for a mortgage broker in California, and as of lately we have been receiving notice after notice that Lenders are going out of business. I'm being told through my work that this doesn't necessarily effect my position with the exception of we have to go out and find other Lenders that will loan our clients money for their homes. Thankfully the clients we work with all have exception credit, so resources although a little more hectic to find are still available for them. However, due to so many people in the U.S. letting their homes go into foreclosure because they can no longer afford their mortgage as well as so many people being out of work because of the recent closing of financial lending institutions it causes me great concern for my own well-being. After all isn't it a dog-eat-dog world out there-----everyone must look out for themsevesf?

I purposely do not watch the news or read it (perhaps not the wisest thing to do) because it causes me such stress. I'm so extremely sensitive that I take all of this stuff personally and let it eat at me until I'm nearly physically sick. A gene (probably not genetically authentic) passed on from my father called "worrying" was certainly one I inherited.

I realize that there's an ebb and flow to everything in life. I can logically rationalize that over centuries the financial market is strong and weak. There's countless documents of historical data that will show that there are good times financially as well as hard times financially, and somehow in the end it all balances out.

I've seem to have been a blessed being in somehow always managing to get by. I've never been what one would consider financially successful, and yet I've never required applying for unemployment income from the government because of always being gainfully employed.

Nonetheless, the current state of affairs still worries me. Eventhough, logically and emotionally I need to not worry about it as that's showing a lack of faith, in my humanness I still do. I've been on this planet for quite some time now and have weathered many storms, but for some reason this particular storm has me gravely concerned for some reason.

Ugh! Sometimes it just stinks being a grown-up. LOL And if I'm completely being honest as well as stereotypical, I hate being the man of the family worrying about this kind of stuff.