Feeling safe

i am in a very safe place compared to most of the world.

i am very gratefull for this, and i try not to take advantage of it everday, you know, always reminding yourself you have it good.

still though, in this world i just dont feel safe, and the older i get, the less safe i feel.

the last 4 years have been a huge realization, now the snowball (my life) is rolling in a new direction.

do you feel safe?

 

Not necessarily...

 

Yup, I have weapons. Wanna see them?

 

Their is more to feeling safe than just weapons. They only do so much.

 

the key to feeling safe is to not fear what can harm you.
i dont worry about any of the shit that the news people show in an attempt to scare us. and i dont worry about the wild hurting me. (there is that tree that looks like it could fall on my roof, but that is the landlords problem)
i am aware of how unsafe things are but i feel safe enough that it dosnt bother me.

 

i feel pretty safe. but i dont have to wander to terribly far for that to change

 

I don't feel secure. I haven't since my parents died and I was a grown woman when that happened. It's a money thing in my case.

As far as safe goes - Yes, I feel safe at my home but I feel less safe out in the world than I did several years ago. That's not so much from lamestream media. I don't watch t.v. news. It's from actually knowing first hand that there are crazy people out there who just don't think twice about seriously harming their fellow humans.

 

No, I don't feel safe at all. I'm very fearful of suffering harassment and even worse as I get older, which is only exascerbated by the fact that I'm always alone. I have no-one to turn to if things do start getting ugly. I don't think there's ever been a time when I've felt safe though.

 

It's sort of like what Invisible Soul said...

It hasn't always been this way though.

 

nope, wonder if I ever will

 

Safe from what?

I feel safe most of the time. Not ignorantly safe that there is no possible way that anything bad can happen, more aware that if something were to happen I would be alright. I try to make very good decisions and be very aware of what is going on around me.

Sometimes I feel a bit more unsafe than usual and base my decisions on this, but usually I am willing to take chances, if I feel I'm making good decisions and I'm prepared for things to go down. Which for me is just making sure I'm healthy. When I prioritize my health I feel more capable of responding to my surroundings, if I'm tired, undereating, sick, I usually feel less safe during these times.

I think of it usually in relation to the people I communicate with and trying to be respectful and non-offensive in my surroundings.

 

I haven't felt safe since the "patriot act" was enacted to destroy the forth amendment. NDAA makes me feel less secure as well.

Also I am concerned that the critters in Washington may start fiddling with the 2nd amendment. Although I do not own any guns or other weapons I feel safer knowing that I could if I wanted to.

 

I feel safe because I don't need much and control my (relatively little) responsibilities as good as it gets. I think I'm a pretty rational person overall but also have my naive moments and just am very positive. This makes it all very bearable for me to live without much fear happily.

 

Feeling quite safe here. But that doesn't necessarily mean I actually am safe.

Positive thinking goes a long way.

 

I agree, I don't know how safe I am from serious stuff like meteorites, crime or radioactive radiation but I feel safe and that is good enough. Why worry about the 3rd world war or a deadly cancer when you don't have it yet. Feeling safe is for a big part between your ears. Not talking about being ignorant mind you, which is a small line I guess

 

I feel absolutely safe. Nothing real can be caused to be unreal. What is unreal does not exist.

We are never upset for a fact, but for the interpretation of fact.

Fear is a liar.

 

If fear is always a liar what does that make of interpretation?

 

If fear is a state of mind; it's a choice. The thoughts that would accompany fearful thoughts would be:

Am I safe?
How can I be sure I'm safe?
What if I'm not really safe?
What if I think I'm safe but am really not?

Sure some of those fears will be legitimate in this life; but most of those thoughts will be obsessions about things that never happen anyway.

Choose your obsessions wisely.

 

I feel safe.
Safe in my home, walking around - but I think that's because I don't have a fear of death.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to die - but as a Christian I've left that fear behind.

That doesn't mean I'd be dumb enough to walk around a bad area of town at night. I used to work as a librarian in the ghetto, where there was a bong shop across the street, drug dealers hanging out behind it to sell, and pimps watching their hookers from inside the library while they pick up johns.
We regularly had to rouse homeless people off our lawn in the morning, and had a panic-button installed under the counter, since we had a knife fight start in the Lib.

There was a very real sense of danger every time I went to work, and I had to get picked up EXACTLY at closing, because I would get mugged/raped if I was outside, by myself at night...

So I'm smart, but not fearful.

Peace,
- Flowermama

 

You are always quite cryptic but I think this tops everything.

And the third statement is false.