Originally posted by RAIDER14
its not over the top its the world today
Its not the world today... Its the world inside your head. Its the world that the media spoon feeds you to keep you scared and make sure you stay inside and read their websites and watch their news shows.
Not that the whole world is perfectly safe, but what are the threats facing you today? What are the odds that someone is going to kill you today? Why worry so much?
The real world is largely a safe place where kids walk to school, people mow their lawns, wash their cars.
There will always be unsafe places, there will always been wars. There always has been. Its not the world 'today'. This is the same world people have been living in for all the years its been here and its no more or less safe than it ever has been.
So some A-holes have guns and bombs... Yeah, thats not new. There have been enemy nations and groups of every country going all the way back through history. And there have been occasional tragedies... The Black Plague, The Holocaust, the list goes on and on. And everyone of those events was bigger than what is going on today.
If you spend your days worrying about when the next bad thing is going to happen you will have wasted all of your opportunites for happy days. And you will have let terrorism win. Any time you worry yourself, thats what they wanted. They want you to feel you are not safe.... You are.
The armed forces of our country are keeping them busy a hemisphere away so that you can live the happy life you do... Don't throw away the freedom they are providing you by spending it in fear.
You're at greater risk from Bird Flu than from terrorism.