Recession prompts a personal stocktaking

I HAVE come to realise the recession may not be such a bad thing after all.

It has forced me to take stock of where my life is going, busy running from pillar to post trying to catch up with myself, with no value for money and little time for my fellow human beings.

Now when I am spending money I ask whether I really need the item in question and if I do purchase, I appreciate it while in the past I would have taken it for granted.