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The economy has always been bad, but fate decides which side you fall on

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Life is number 6, or number 9, depending on which side of this number you are standing. We judge things according to where we stand. I have a personal fault I shamefully accept; if I am driving, I am constantly irritated by the shenanigans pulled by matatu drivers, but, if I am passenger in the said matatus, the irritation is just not there - get me there in the shortest time possible, driver! I am not selfish, I am just human.

"This economy is really bad" - a statement that has many colourful versions, one that can be used as a joke or in seriousness, of course, depending. What is constant though, is that it is one statement that never goes out of fashion. I have no memory of when I first heard it, but that is probably because I heard it way before my brain could decipher words. Fact is, the economy has always been bad, depending.

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