People nowadays worry too much. Do they really? How about, people nowadays care less about things and other people? I can’t really tell, though. Either one of those statements are relative, I say. It depends on the person and many factors that make it harder to tell.

Anyway, regardless of whether they care more or less, people nowadays felt the need to be secure. It is only when we are feeling secure that we are able to do our job undistracted. At least that’s my opinion, and I would appreciate if some of you would give some thoughts and insights about the matter.

How do people manage to feel secure nowadays? Someone said that with the right amount of money, you can actually buy everything, although this is debatable, very much so. But it is true that you can pay to feel more secure, that’s why we have insurance nowadays. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t live in the U.S. I am even not a U.S citizen, but like so many people in the world, we turn our attention to the U.S more often than before lately. The world is in recession, that’s what I read and heard people say, although how it will affect me; I still have very little idea.

One of the things that I heard was having a major impact on the U.S economy is the Mortgage problems. It seems that there’s a lot of people that cannot get out of debt and cannot afford to pay their mortgage anymore, which is really, really sad to hear.

I read that mortgage was originally comes from Old French, meaning ‘Dead Pledge’. You can read more about it on the Wikipedia page about mortgage. Because of this meaning, some people joked that it means that the debt will follow you until you died. It was somewhat funny, but only because it sounds rather ironic. Read the rest of this entry »