Bad mood

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I am indeed in a bad mood today, even though I better be mad at the world and Corona and our politicians, who at some point must have lost contact to real live and drifted off, some into the arms of hysteria, others to greed. Now the things I prognosticated slowly begin to come true. I always considered the effect of the pandemic as a conglomeration of the consequences of a perilious sickness and the harbingers of a serious economic crisis, and that many but not all of us would have to pay the price. By having to deal with the sometimes overboarding measures against Covid 19 people were no more able to see that almost all countries all over the world and their inhabitants, too, have been living beyond their means. Our politicians need money, and quick! Higher taxes, new taxes, higher food prices etc. (be it bio stuff or better, bio domestical stuff, which is always the most expensive). Pay more, get less is the name of the game. Biggest problem always have been pensioners, so they should at least work until regular pensionable age, which is okay for me. But even then there´d be obstacles, especially for women, like having children and staying at home for a bit and losing money that could not be compensated by the money you get during maternity leave. So those who were about to retire had to either put up with deduction of pension or simply work longer. I have two friends who did so, both teaching in High school. They worked three years longer than planned, because, you know, money does not grow on trees. Their respetive husbands were soon to retire, too, and then there´d surely be time enough for travelling and making good memories. So wrong, because all of a sudden there was Corona with all the restrictions it brought. And you don´t get younger, you know. Now in the span of three months the husbands of both of my friends died. One because he had a heart attack, he ignoring the telltale signs because he did not want to mix up with sick people at the doctor´s, the other because of cancer. The second one had cancer for a long time. If my friend had retired as planned, the two would have been able to bring a close to their mission in Africa, which always had been the main goal in life. So three years of life for 80 Euros more of pension, and now it is too late to oull the ripcord. I do not want to know what live has in store for me. What I know is that money isn´t everything.

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That´s exactly what I did. i did not feel comfortable among all those energetic young people, and many of my friends were about to retire, too. I certainly won´t miss the stress all teaching people are under now in times of Corona!