Feb 16, 2006 15:12
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safe·ty (sâf'tê) n. pl.
1. "The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk, or injury."
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People underestimate the value of feeling "safe".
Most have the fortune to go through their daily lives with a relative sense of safety. Especially when the routines of the day have never presented any real danger before in the past.
When you are driving, the statistics of motor vehicle accidents never crosses your mind. You don't think about in America 115 + people die every day in motor vehicle accidents (about 43,200 deaths per year.) on your way to the store, or to work.
When you are walking down the sidewalk or crossing the street, when is the last time you thought about that 15% of people who die because of motor vehicle accidents are pedestrians, bicyclists or other wise people not in motor vehicles?
You didn't.
But what people really take for granted is their feeling of "Personal Safety" from other people.
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt that your personal safety was endanger because of another human being? Maybe you were being followed in a car by someone you didn't know, or by someone you did know who was obsessive.
A stalker.
Ever call the police on anyone? Ever afraid of retaliation of some type? Ever been in a bad part of town?
Maybe you were curled up in bed enjoying a good book and heard someone breaking into your home, or asleep and woke-up to the same. Perhaps you weren't home...what would have happen if you would have been?
A thief? A murderer?
You may have even been mugged, car-jacked or had several other things happen that could be considered life threatening situations.
If you believe that harm can be done to others through "occult" means, then what if you have enemies that believe the same?
Even having someone threaten to do any type of bodily harm is a infringement on that "feeling" of "safety".
I think we can all agree that it is a very uncomfortable feeling.
Be grateful and be humbled if you are one of the fortunate who at present has that feeling of personal security.
Because a time is coming when that feeling will be taken from you.
Safety is not a gun, an alarm or in numbers.
It's only a state of mind.
~S~