It’s interesting how many times this sentence shows up more and more in conversations: “Something has to give.”

It is usually on the tail end of how gasoline prices have gone too far up, or how much groceries are now. Some blame the ethanol craze and I suspect there is a lot of truth there despite GM’s claim otherwise. I guess decades of taking people for idiots is still ingrained in Detroit’s way of thinking. Taxes, gas, groceries and big V8s leaves little after having paid for it all.

Nonetheless, I hear more and more people feeling the squeeze and not just local shops. It’s sad to see America looking into ways of saving here and there in the minute details. It’s something I have never witnessed but looking back at lean times, it is something that has happened before. On the flip side, this will diminish the landscape of bloated SUV, pickup trucks and attitude drivers.

What’s important in the end is to talk and communicate. We realize we are not alone thinking and feeling this. It’s when we let the commotion take over and start feeling separated that we lose track of what is important. After all, we are all in it together. After, we are the ones who decide in the end. We just need to remember.

It’s interesting to see what society is going through as it mimics what the real estate market is doing, readjusting to a new way of living… maybe even a healthier one but in the meantime, something has to give.