April Blogging Challenge Day 16 (Something that you miss)

Something that you miss.

I miss the ability to feel safe. As a child I felt safe all the time. I had the ability to teach a bully not to mess with me (dad taught me to fight and I was a strong kid). There seemed to be a hell of a lot less danger back then. This could be the fact that they did not really go nuts on the bad things in the news back then, and well, I did not watch the news or read the paper as a kid.

We rode our bikes all over the city for hours and hours and nothing would ever happen. Even the way people drove their cars was better in the day - a lot less people running into things back then.

I felt loved, and save all of the time. It was idyllic. Sure there where dangers looking back, but I did not really see them, or I felt I could over come them. Now, I have to say I don't feel nearly as safe. I feel there are a lot of dangers out there. People are no longer as nice and crime is way the hell up from the 1970's to now (2025).

The world seems on the edge of a global war as well. Safe is not something I feel anymore. There is always the underlaying feeling that it's all going to go horribly wrong soon.



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