Post by Admin on Oct 29, 2023 15:05:26 GMT
About to travel soon, and have never felt more insecure about doing so in many years
About to travel soon, and wow, it's not something I want to do at all.
I booked flight while drunk or drinking, so of course then I was gutsy, but now, heck now.
Traveling scares the hell out of me now days.
I used to love flying, traveling, but that was years ago when society was way more sane. Now, everyone's gone looney.
Fights break out, the mentally ill hide their illness until aboard airplane in mid-flight.
I'm safe, have been safe, cause for the last decade I stick to my small little world or predictability, work, home, work, home, grocery store, work, home..ect.
Now though, will be veering 1000's of miles outside of my safe comfort zone, and ye, I'm nervous about it, especially every time I read the headlines of all the crazy stuff going on now days, in public spaces.
Not to mention a mentally ill pilot tried turning off airplane engines, in mid-flight, a few weeks ago..abcnews.go.com/US/details-emerge-after-off-duty-pilot-allegedly-shut/story?id=104247388
And then being a person of color makes it even worse for me, in that going to a majority 'W' area, which is fine, I'm fine with all white communities, I feel safer there, but, but, do to all the negative headline news, my nightmare is for them to associate me with all the crap they see on social media.
When people fear you, they become hostile, and when hostile, they behave in ways that are dangerous to you.
I'm totally for law and order (even voted for Trump, twice), but when 'B' or person of color, no matter how you voted, you instantly get lumped in with being a drug user or a thug or just a danger to whatever community you're in....and that's just the fact jack.
And to be honest with you, I can't blame them, or anyone, who makes that association.
Everyone is fleeing Democrat states and cities and headed to small rural towns (where I'm from actually).
But when I return, they'll think I'm the new one, and not realize, no, I was there first, it's you all 'Johny come lately' types, that are the intruders into the heartland.
Yep, now you have all these snotty nosed suburban uppity types fleeing to the very small towns they used to laugh about, and then once there, they think they own the place or places.
Oh well, society is changing, always does, and the older you get the scarier change becomes.
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In a week or so, I'll be in for the adventure, not of my life, but of my older adult years life.
(When younger, such a trip would of been nothing to me)
But society is not what it was when I was younger, when criminals go locked up and stayed in jail/prison, and where our boarder was controlled, and where small towns were still cheap affordable places to live...now you go to small towns and some have been completely taking over by migrants from Somalia or ect.
Everything is changing, and not sure if I'm equipped to deal with these changes, but you know what, the world stands still for no one, not even me.
About to travel soon, and wow, it's not something I want to do at all.
I booked flight while drunk or drinking, so of course then I was gutsy, but now, heck now.
Traveling scares the hell out of me now days.
I used to love flying, traveling, but that was years ago when society was way more sane. Now, everyone's gone looney.
Fights break out, the mentally ill hide their illness until aboard airplane in mid-flight.
I'm safe, have been safe, cause for the last decade I stick to my small little world or predictability, work, home, work, home, grocery store, work, home..ect.
Now though, will be veering 1000's of miles outside of my safe comfort zone, and ye, I'm nervous about it, especially every time I read the headlines of all the crazy stuff going on now days, in public spaces.
Not to mention a mentally ill pilot tried turning off airplane engines, in mid-flight, a few weeks ago..abcnews.go.com/US/details-emerge-after-off-duty-pilot-allegedly-shut/story?id=104247388
And then being a person of color makes it even worse for me, in that going to a majority 'W' area, which is fine, I'm fine with all white communities, I feel safer there, but, but, do to all the negative headline news, my nightmare is for them to associate me with all the crap they see on social media.
When people fear you, they become hostile, and when hostile, they behave in ways that are dangerous to you.
I'm totally for law and order (even voted for Trump, twice), but when 'B' or person of color, no matter how you voted, you instantly get lumped in with being a drug user or a thug or just a danger to whatever community you're in....and that's just the fact jack.
And to be honest with you, I can't blame them, or anyone, who makes that association.
Everyone is fleeing Democrat states and cities and headed to small rural towns (where I'm from actually).
But when I return, they'll think I'm the new one, and not realize, no, I was there first, it's you all 'Johny come lately' types, that are the intruders into the heartland.
Yep, now you have all these snotty nosed suburban uppity types fleeing to the very small towns they used to laugh about, and then once there, they think they own the place or places.
Oh well, society is changing, always does, and the older you get the scarier change becomes.
---------------------------
In a week or so, I'll be in for the adventure, not of my life, but of my older adult years life.
(When younger, such a trip would of been nothing to me)
But society is not what it was when I was younger, when criminals go locked up and stayed in jail/prison, and where our boarder was controlled, and where small towns were still cheap affordable places to live...now you go to small towns and some have been completely taking over by migrants from Somalia or ect.
Everything is changing, and not sure if I'm equipped to deal with these changes, but you know what, the world stands still for no one, not even me.
