broke again chapter 2

So if I'm going to make a story of it, and that's all I can do with this new hardship, then I'll make it one of many morals.  The first is that adversity has tied to its tail opportunity like a bright ribbon.  One need only get past adversity's sharp talons and teeth and while being chewed to pieces untie the little ribbons and make something pretty out of it all.
As is said in Don Quixote, the source of all morality writing, [a comfortable thought in times of trouble is] "not to let your mind dwell on the adverse chances that may befall you; for the worst of all is death, and if it be a good death, the best of all is to die."
Death, the nearness of it and the threat of it will certainly be a part of the madness discussed more below in the story line.  For our lives are like theater and (ignoring the shakespearean 5 act plays) we have but three acts and I find myself in act 3 and beset with woes.  As I was told today by another, the first two acts of my life were a musical, but this third act is a nightmare. It is, "Into the Woods" (a theater reference, brought on by my strange community service activities which despite my near incapacitating anxieties, I rallied to attend to.  You'll have to attend to that yourself to understand it better).
DQ continues:  "They asked Julius Caesar...'what was the best death' [and he answered] 'that which is unexpected, which comes suddenly and unforeseen.'"
So I snatch at the bright ribbons, dodge the teeth as much as possible and hope for the future, knowing that eventually the opportunity will come to die suddenly and in some unforeseen manner.  It is a comfort to one who is broke.
And let us not forget the joy of being happy in the face of our adversaries who would bring us low.  Because as long as you have an optimistic bend and smile on your face, you can sometimes seize on the weaknesses of your adversaries and extract from them some recompense for the bringing low of one economically speaking.
So for story characters, one will be like the man who holds Don Quixote close, a biblical type of reference for traveling in seek of what will be developed over time.  For DQ traveled in madness brought on by reading and Fear and Loathing traveled in madness brought on by drug use.  Perhaps I should write of madness brought on by you disappearing, and, of course, being broke again.
And so the curtain lifts and, the last of the generation before having gone on to that non-linear time space, I will pray for strength, deliverance and you and begin Act 3.