Hitting Home

The economic crisis is starting to hit home for me. Today I saw a person standing on the side of the road with a sign that said "STRANDED HUNGRY ANYTHING APPRECIATED". I had never seen anything like that in my life- maybe on TV but not here in this secluded little valley where it seems like nothing from the outside world could ever bother us. I cried on the way home. I cried because I wasn't able to help that person- we were in traffic and unable to stop- and because it's real. Today the economic crisis became very real to me.