A lesson from Argentina

On the radio this morning a previous Minister for Finance of Argentina spoke about the economic crisis that almost destroyed his country in the last decade. He spoke of "actual" blood on the streets rather than the metaphorical kind that many media observers speak of, and some of the fiscal and societal measures his country had to endure in order to achieve some semblance of normality again.
One thing that piqued my interest in particular was his reference to how quickly his country started to recover once the nasty decisions had been made (I think he mentioned 5 months). The point he made was that after the necessary financial and political aspects of the recovery plan were instigated, he felt that one of the main reasons for further improvement in the lives of the Argentinian people was their attitude to what was happening and the control they had over their own futures. Some experts with opinions warned of provincial towns and cities being left as ghost towns as people fled to Brasil.
However the Argentine people took a view that a positive attitude was of more use to them in their every day lives than an blind acceptance that what the observers told them was best. I believe that despite the difficulties that Ireland finds itself in it is not the media, where it appears that everyone has an expert opinion rather than a reporter of the news) but the Irish people who will dictate the mood of the country for the length of time this difficulty lasts. It is important to remember that every media organ is connected to a paymaster and sings that tune. There is no outlet that is unbiased so no news story or opinion comes to you in an unbiased manner. The problem with opinions is that they are just that, opinions. They may or may not be facts and as such should not be accepted as truth.
My advice to people is simply to make the best decision based on what they see and know rather than what they hear and with that decide on the attitude you are going to take with your life for the foreseeable future or until something changes your mind. There are many difficult times in a persons life, that is just the way of things. What is important is how we deal with them and move on.
What other people do to us we cannot control. How we react to them is our decision.