Sooft - Whenever

Whenever I turn on the news at the moment, it’s all about the global financial crisis worsening. Continually. Stock markets are plummeting, banks are becoming, well, bankrupt on a daily basis and governments are scrambling to secure the assets of their citizens. I can’t help but smile just a little bit. Personally, I have no substantial savings, no real debt besides my student loan (which frankly is probably never getting paid off), no stock portfolio, no mortgage, and collect a salary substantially less than the average university graduate. A year ago I’d have been worried about my situation, but now I’m in great financial shape. I feel somewhat impervious to whatever this ‘crisis’ throws at me! With no car, no nicotine addiction, no serious alcohol problems or other less legal fiscal sinkholes, the most I’ve felt is an extra few pounds on my weekly twenty-quid shop (big deal) and less of those horribly annoying, yet strangely alluring property shows to watch on the BBC’s daytime schedule. I’m just enjoying watching the massively rich squirming around as their million-pound retirement stocks evaporate and the sad realisation sets in that their later years are more likely to be spent in Brighton than Bermuda.