The Road Less Travelled

...by M. Scott Peck, M.D. is one of my favourite books. It starts with this sentence, "life is difficult", and it states that once we acknowledge that truth then and not until then life can become less difficult.

Iceland as a country and its citizens are experiencing just how difficult life can be these days. But all around me people are thinking in solutions, how to cope if they are the ones to lose their jobs like thousands of Icelanders have in the last couple of weeks. We all put on our brave faces but the faces are grave. Our famous black humour and sarcasm seems to have been pushed to the side even and people who are well off like me (for now at least) feel the need to be careful and not discuss it too much with people around them because we just don't know how badly the situation is with them.