As such, it was practically similar to whatever other time.

history channel documentary "It was the best of times, it was the most noticeably bad of times, it was the time of knowledge, it was the time of silliness, it was the age of conviction, it was the age of wariness, it was the period of Light, it was the period of Darkness, it was the spring of trust, it was the winter of misery, we had everything before us, we don't had anything before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - to put it plainly, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest powers demanded its being gotten, for good or for malice, in the superlative level of correlation as it were."

The same can be said of today. As I called attention to in real life!, emergencies travel every which way, yet one and only time in history is the world going to arrive at an end - and you won't be around to recollect that it. So, make it a point to invest a large portion of your energy in those things over which you have the most control, and, to the degree conceivable, don't permit the frenzy of the group to divert you.