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<blockquote data-quote="Marcie Mac" data-source="post: 267161" data-attributes="member: 47"><p>I grew up with a mother who was the ultimate with the negative thought process about bad stuff happening, it didn't matter what you were going to do, even a simple visit to the movie theatre came with a warning that I had to wear a coat and leave it on because there were bad men who injected little kids with hypodermic needles so they could kidnap them. Thankfully she never finished these little factoids of what would happen AFTER they did this. I wish I could say she went there because she thought this tact would work with a little kid who had a major ADHD thing going on and absolutely no impulse control and absolutely no fear of anything, but it wasn't the case, she just sees boogeymen and bad stuff and dead people EVERYWHERE, to this day and she is in her late 80's. I feel sorry she has wasted years of her life in this paranoid lump of existance, that fear has not let her just find the joy in "winging" it, or playing it by ear, and IF something bad happens, deal with it then.</p><p> </p><p>Thankfully I grew up to be the ultimate optimist - how could I not be - after so many dire warnings of "bad stuff" that never ever happened, after a while she was just tuned out - any good "warnings" were lost in the overload of negativity, and anything that came out of her mouth was equaled in my mind as she was full of carp.</p><p> </p><p>Yeah, there is bad stuff out there, bad people, bad situations. I avoid reading about them, or watching them on the tube - too much overload of this stuff starts coloring your perception of the world, and will **** the joy out of your life if you let it. If bad stuff is comming my way, I will deal with it when it gets here.</p><p> </p><p>Kudo's to you for doing a job like you do - I couldn't do it. </p><p> </p><p>Marcie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcie Mac, post: 267161, member: 47"] I grew up with a mother who was the ultimate with the negative thought process about bad stuff happening, it didn't matter what you were going to do, even a simple visit to the movie theatre came with a warning that I had to wear a coat and leave it on because there were bad men who injected little kids with hypodermic needles so they could kidnap them. Thankfully she never finished these little factoids of what would happen AFTER they did this. I wish I could say she went there because she thought this tact would work with a little kid who had a major ADHD thing going on and absolutely no impulse control and absolutely no fear of anything, but it wasn't the case, she just sees boogeymen and bad stuff and dead people EVERYWHERE, to this day and she is in her late 80's. I feel sorry she has wasted years of her life in this paranoid lump of existance, that fear has not let her just find the joy in "winging" it, or playing it by ear, and IF something bad happens, deal with it then. Thankfully I grew up to be the ultimate optimist - how could I not be - after so many dire warnings of "bad stuff" that never ever happened, after a while she was just tuned out - any good "warnings" were lost in the overload of negativity, and anything that came out of her mouth was equaled in my mind as she was full of carp. Yeah, there is bad stuff out there, bad people, bad situations. I avoid reading about them, or watching them on the tube - too much overload of this stuff starts coloring your perception of the world, and will **** the joy out of your life if you let it. If bad stuff is comming my way, I will deal with it when it gets here. Kudo's to you for doing a job like you do - I couldn't do it. Marcie [/QUOTE]
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