FEAR

For the most part, life is a pretty simple thing. You wake up, you go about your day, and you go to sleep. You wake up, you go about your day, and you go to sleep. This happens twenty five or thirty thousand times, and then you die. The process is not rocket science. However, there are plenty of things that take place, while we are trying to go about our day, that cause us much pain and heartache. But why?

For me, most of my stress is self induced. I procrastinate on, avoid, or simply forget things that need to get done. And after things pile up, they tend to come crashing down on my head. But luckily I tend to look at this a bit differently than everybody else. I kind of like the stress. It is so much easier to deal with certain things when you are under the gun, and there is an air of necessity. However, what I do not understand is people who let things really bother them. I mean really bother them.

I do not understand people who let things bother them so much that they actually feel that their life is in danger. Over the centuries millions of our forefathers and ancestors, stood up to real and perceived dangers. They did it selflessly, and for many of them it cost them their lives. They did this, so that their sons and daughters could live in a society, where REAL FEAR no longer existed. And today, in Canada at the least, we should be able to live without REAL FEAR.

However, some people fail to see a good thing when they have it. As if their minds cannot accept the advances we have made. They begin to imagine threats that are not there. They attact strangers, pre-emtively for fear that the stranger is actually some terrorist. There seems to be no shortage of paranoia. Paranoia and suspicion plot neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend. People think they are living and working in a giant game of SURVIVOR. Thinking that they are about to get kicked off the island, fired from work, or rejected by friends.

I do not understand this. Can someone please tell me why there is so much fear out there. Does anyone have a tank parked outside their house that I am not aware of. Has anyone actually been forced to eat out of a garbage can, that did not want to. And last but not least, What the hell is a Panic attack, and why the hell are so many people having them?

Dont get me wrong, there a plenty of reasons one might panic, here is a list of acceptable things to panic about.
1. You have a tank parked in front of your house.
2. You find yourself in IRAQ and you are not a Bush supporter.
3. You find yourself in IRAQ and you are a bush supporter.
4. You have no place to live, no food to eat, no money, AND no legs to walk-you-to a place where you can sleep and eat
5. Someone is holding you in a cell. You dont know how or why you are there. And you dont know how or when you are gonna get out.

That is pretty much it. The rest is icing on the cake as far as I can see. And let me tell you that I am very happy that my cake has so much icing on it. Not just icing but candles, and jelly beans, and sprinkles of chocolate. And if I ever have a panic attack for fear of someone taking a jelly-bean or some chocolate sprinkles off my cake, Please someone shoot me, and send me to live in a place like Iraq, because I certainly dont deserve to live here.