Reply #36: Living involves risk, always.

[Kailassa]

A meteorite could slam through your ceiling and kill you tomorrow.

I sent my daughter for a holiday with people I should have been able to trust, my own parents, having blocked out the memories of what my mother had done to me as a child. My daughter was very lucky to survive. However if she had not been holidaying, she would have been in a friend's car, being driven to school, when this friend was run off the road by someone she knew, and the car landed, shredded, at the bottom of a steep cliff. Tina survived, but the passenger side of the car was demolished.

The fact is, we always overestimate the danger posed by strangers, when the bulk of inflicted harm in this world comes from people we know all too well. I've done my best to teach my beloved brats to treat people with respect and consideration, and to not be frightened of anyone.