The New York Times is reporting the financial distress of the Dubai Sovereign Fund. I gotta say, I’m a little surprised.  About a year ago, I was expecting the financial center of the world to shift from New York to the Middle East or China. I think I’ve been leaning towards China, but I was really expecting the Middle East, especially Dubai to show a bit more longevity.  I’m by no means an economist, but thinking about it now, it makes sense. The growth was too quick. Unsustainable as they like to say. Ok, so what about China? Well…we owe them a serious amount of money.

So they seem to be able to call the shots, right? Well, I guess not? Because somehow and I’m not sure how this all works out…but we are all in the same boat it seems. Somehow…we’re all screwed.

Somehow, we’re all in the movie One Way Passage. Think of An Affair to Remember or Sleepless in Seattle without the happy ending or fabulous reunion. I take that back. This reunion is fantastic.

So a couple meets on a ship and fall in love, but they both are going down. He’s a convict and she’s dying. GREAT STUFF!! After they set up a tradition of glass breaking when they are together and they are torn apart by sickness and prison:

They had agreed to meet again on New Year’s Eve, a month later. At the appointed time and place, a bartender is startled when two glasses on the bar break, then vanish.-Wikipedia

So since the world is it’s own version of One Way Passage there must be a way for us to break the glass. Even if we can’t make it to the party together, we should agree to leave something for the future, even if it is without our presence.