Blindness

The COVID-19 pandemic started in late 2019, my mind always thought about a book called ‘Blindness’ written by Jose Saramago who is a Portuguese and International Bestseller and a Noble Prize winner, I read this book the year of 2008.

Yet, that time after I read the book, what a strange and imaginable subject he chooses to write about.

However, he is very famous in the literature world, no doubt about his foreseen subject.

The story is about some group of people who become "White Blind" after meeting someone who became already blinded without any reason, just a mass epidemic of blindness that affects everyone in an unnamed city.

And social breakdown that follows a group of unnamed characters, who are among the first to be his wife and taxi driver, anyone who just looks blinded person will become blinded as well.

All kinds of harsh treatment brought such a difficult time for blind people like violence, starvation, and degradation of humanity, still, their main goal is survival.

Finally, one lady who is not blind leads them to the church and suddenly becomes free from the blind.

If my memory is correct at that time the lady was I figured God came down to the earth to save that kind of people.

Or suddenly blindness could come from their imagined mind that affects the people surrounding blind people yet after they went into the church from there their minds opened from believing the God truly so the blind go away.

This feeling was my imagination after reading the book.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were confined from a physical distance, yet fortunately, we did have high-tech like the internet and cell phones, Zoom and the Government did their best efforts try to help financially and provide vaccination to everybody.

Yet, during the pandemic, the government spent too much money causing higher inflation.

Now, the government is trying to control high inflation that causes make interest rate higher to reduce spending.

However, the high interest rate brought a weaker economy, and a lot of the company's profit was reduced making their company stock's value go down.

Most average people will say that the stock market going down has nothing to do with them.

That is nonsense because most RRSP and RIF investments are invested in the company all connected with the company's stock value.

Besides U.S. political turmoil and the government debt ceiling came the moment to shut down the government service or increase the debt ceiling. Furthermore, 2 wars are waiting for U.S. help.

This morning when I opened my RIF and Investment account portfolio both account was so much down I was very surprised that I could not believe what I saw was my account or not.

Now, I think what I did in the investment is like the short-term moment I might be blinded. And that reminds me of the year 2007 around that time we had such an experience of the economy being down.

While society is in turmoil the rich and poor are getting transformed for worse or better, yet, the rich will get more richer and poor will more poor bringing a bigger gap between them.

The reason the involvement of my account is giving me to pay more attention to world news and economics that try to live my life up to the present. Another thing is I feel this world is round, and the economy always circles around and does not stand at one point.

I hope all kinds of difficult world situations get solved and that we can have a peaceful world to live in.

So, I do not have to wonder whether even short moment I was blinded or not.

the third week of October,