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greenidentity · Feb 21, 2009, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by jbug

How do you not let things on the news scare you?

I hadn't thought about something I saw on the news scare me or so I thought. Tonight I went to walmart real fast and came back home and was getting my stuff out of the car and it was dark out and I was sitting in my car getting my purse, my cigarettes and all the stuff I needed to take into the house and as I got to my door I realized how much of an easy target I would be for someone to attack me. I then realized I didn't know my neighbors well enough to know if they would come to my rescue if I started to scream. I also didn't have my outside light on because it's late and my neighbors are sleeping and I didn't want to shine my light in their windows and keep them up because I know it irrates me when they do that to me.

The reason I think this came to mind was in Fayetteville which mind you is 45 minutes away they had someone last weekend robbing people as they were exiting their cars. Of course they caught the guys doing it but still I realized how much of an easy target I could be.

So how do you not let something you see like that color your world?

Jan

I know what you mean. I used to obsess over things like this. To the point of anxiety. I couldn't get the terrible realities (even though they had not happened to me) out of my head. I slept with knives in drawers, crowbars under pillows. I'm a reluctant driver, but am better than i used to be.

This is (like most things) easier said than done. But my advice to anyone would be: accept it. Accept all the terrible and horrific things that do happen, and that it can happen to you. And then let it go. It's a process, a diffcult riddle, a bad joke. But at some point, you have to let go of things you have no control over. That is very difficult for me.

Good luck