Don’t Let Economy Get You Down
Submitted By Deepa Mishra
Rising Freshman, Hoover High School, Birmingham, AL
Published in Birmingham News on March 24, 2009
The economy is in trouble, businesses are shutting down, and people are being laid off. This is usually all we think about nowadays. 
Yes, money is an inconvenience in our lives that we just cannot get rid of but we can absolutely give it less importance for a while. Our lives do not need to revolve around money; we have other more important things in life, too, such as family and friends.
Spending time with the special people in your life might make you appreciate the smaller things in life. For instance, be happy you have food to eat or water to drink. Some people do not even have that much.
Or appreciate having a shelter with a roof when other adults and children in Third World countries have the ground and the streets as their home. These people live in scarcity and are in constant fear of what awaits them tomorrow.
Just try to enjoy the better and smaller things in life once in a while and be grateful for all you have rather than worrying about what you do not have.
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