Recently someone asked me if I was worried about the poor global economy and some kind of extreme inflation that sounded worse than regular inflation.

I said, "No."

He might as well have asked if I was worried about the recent scientific studies showing Pi may not actually equal 3.14159.

I know, I know. Recession, unemployment, cutbacks, tightening purse strings. I read the same articles, hear the same speeches, watch the same guys with titles that stretch off the TV tell the world to worry.

I just can't.

I can worry about things like what to wear to that dinner theatre, or what words to put in the first sentence of a story. I can even worry about money, like how long it will take me to be free of the debt incurred during my stint in "higher education." But I cannot - absolutely cannot - worry about the global economy (or Pi).

Firstly, it's global. That's the whole world. And if I'm going to start worrying about the whole world, I'm going to need a lot more chocolate.  

Second, it's not too worried about me.

I'm not being arrogant. It's true. The economy is now more like the vicious, devastating and terrifying blob, in that 1988 remake of the 1958 film of the same name. Get this, the tagline for the 80s film is "Scream now, while there's still room to breathe."

*Insert eye roll here.

The economy doesn't pick and choose whom to chew up and spit out. It's not personal, and it's not the end of the world.

Sure, money is a source of stress, that's why I'm saying worry about your own and not all the money in the world.

A global view shouldn't be boarded up, however. There are people enduring extreme suffering in every country, rich and poor. Look at New Orleans.

I can tell you that the global economy isn't a worry for them. But food and shelter is. Not  second house in cottage country on Lake NIMBY shelter. Just a roof and four walls shelter.

I'm not worried about the global economy. Because the economy is up and down, here and gone and back again. It always comes back.

You know, when I read about, or watch movies about those other times the economy decided to take a stress leave, it's the people that star in films and the characters that drive the book.

There's no blob without people to gobble up.

I guess I'm a little worried about the global priorities. But the global economy, like that song I watched Freddy Penner sing many years ago, will come back. Just like the cat.