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Chicken crazed, wish I could give you a big hug that would just squeeze all that sort of thinking out of you, never to return. If you have a concern about someone near you actually really hurting you, there are people who can help you.
If it is more like a general fear, from dreams, there are also people who can help reassure you. It is amazing how much better a person feels if they share what is bothering them with a friend.
The whole answer, though, is complicated. It is easy to get afraid when one reads about terrible things in the news. However, with so many billions of people in the world you have to remember that all sorts of things do happen out there. It doesn't mean it will happen to you.
I have thought about it a lot as some bad things have happened in my family.
But what I realized is that in life people simply learn to be strong, they learn to pick themselves back up and live again.
I have often said to myself, 'I can't handle this, I can't take it, it's too much'.
And then I just do.
The really amazing thing about people - yes all people - is that they learn to get up again. The sun comes up again, and we start over. We all learn, not just survive, but feel better again, and love again and be happy again, and go on to do wonderful, amazing things.
The real miracle is that we can get strength from so many amazing things around us, from our faith, from our family, from those who love us and those we love, from going on a hike in a forest and surrounding ourselves with the peace of nature, from something as simple as sitting and petting a dog, and having the dog gaze up at us as if that dog understood everything we have ever felt.
All these things are given to us, amazing things, incredible things, unbelievable things. Great things like a gigantic waterfall, and little things like a bird's nest, or a complete stranger holding open a door for us, for no reason, just to be kind.
When you see all the wonderful things in the world, they give you strength, and you will know that you can overcome anything.