Before I wrote my book on the coming crisis, an old friend stopped by. A wealthy real estate investor, he asked what I’d been up to. I told him that the economy was headed for the toilet and we may be in for another Great Depression.

Stunned at my reply and after exchanging mutually exclusive viewpoints, he asked,

“How can you get up in the morning if you think that’s going to happen?”

At the time I didn’t know how to answer. But I now know that “my getting up in the morning” is not dependent on believing the world will necessarily be better tomorrow.

I am fortunate (though I didn’t believe it at the time) that my 63 years on this planet have included extreme ups and downs and thus prepared me for a future quite unlike today.

My feeling is: What’s another down if it’s followed by another up?

Well before I became interested in matters of money, I was interested in matters of “life”. I remember one of my first classes at UC Davis, Sociology I, where the professor asked us to ask ourselves the question,

“Who am I?”

The purpose of the question was to show us that our self-descriptions were sociological, i.e. age, gender, race, etc. But that was not my response at all. I was dumfounded by the question “Who am I?”

I knew that “I” wasn’t any of those descriptive terms. I knew that the “I” in question was not answered by sociological descriptions.

Far before asking the question “what is money”, I had asked the question “who am I”; and the answer to the latter has given me the faith to deal with the former and what the coming collapse of money will bring.

Recently, Martha and I received a “thank you gift" from someone who had read my book on the coming collapse. He said “I want to show you what I did because of the influence of your work on me.”

The reader, Steve Dore, said “At about 3:09 into the video, I hold up "Time of the Vulture" book…You were directly responsible for the feel of this song/video and my change from negative to positive, because of the way you closed your message.”

“You can see the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtGgaDOjtiY ”

If you watch Mr. Dore's video (it is also posted on www.drschoon.com on the media page), you will see he truly understood the inner core of my message. It is my belief we are entering a time of unprecedented crises. I also believe the result of that exceedingly difficult transit will be a far better world.

I have no trouble getting up in the morning at all.

Darryl Robert Schoon

www.survivethecrisis.com

www.drschoon.com