<p>Lately, I’ve been visiting a friend who lives in a high-crime area and I would regularly walk back alone from her house to the train station at around midnight (it’s quite a bit of a walk). My friends think I’m crazy for doing this given the frequency of drive-by shootings and muggings that happen there, but strangely enough, I don’t really care that much about my own safety. Is this normal? Have you ever thought “I don’t really care if I die right now”? No, I’m not suicidal or depressed. Just curious if such thoughts run through your head as well.</p>
<p>The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.</p>
<p>Without knowing you, that’s impossible to say.
Your attitude could be a healthy, relaxed one, but it could also indicate some level of mania, depression, or apathy that could be self-destructive.
Without meeting you, that’s not really something we can judge accurately online.</p>
<p>well, either way, I’m asking if the same thought has run through your head. I can assure you that I don’t have depression. I’ve been the happiest I’ve ever been and that’s saying a lot.</p>
<p>quite interesting that you say that “i’ve been the happiest i’ve ever been” and thats saying a lot for you. were you depressed before?</p>
<p>Maybe it’s that you feel nothing bad can happen to you. Us young people think we’re invincible, so it’s possible you have this carefree attitude because you think nothing will happen.</p>
<p>Or maybe you are actually very scared and you say “I really don’t care what happens to me” as a way to calm yourself down.</p>
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<p>sorry couldnt help myself</p>
<p>It could be normal. When I’m really happy, I don’t worry about life being short. I just enjoy the moment. More “down” periods of my life have been characterized by worrying about not living long enough to be happy/do what I want to do. So I’m more apathetic about my safety when I’m in a good mood.</p>
<p>As far as whether you’re crazy for walking alone at midnight in a high-crime area…No. Dumb? Yes. Because although you say you don’t mind dying, I think your attitude would be different if you actually found yourself with a gun to your head :p. It’s easy to be apathetic when you’re ignorant.</p>
<p>Well, I live in what is considered by some to be a high-crime area and I know some people who will go wandering around by themselves at all hours of the night without thinking twice, but that’s because they think everyone else is paranoid and nothing can possibly happen to them, not because they don’t particularly care if something does happen to them. In one person’s case in particular, I think it has something to do with proving “manliness” and proving that he’s just so much better than all the other “idiots” at this school who don’t go out alone.</p>
<p>Maybe you’re so content with your life that you feel you could leave the face of this earth right now and never regret it.</p>
<p>you’re just naive and trusting. it takes an “experience” or regular exposure to danger that gets you really suspicious about your surroundings.</p>
<p>Thanatos…</p>
<p>That ^ is intriguing.</p>
<p>Btw, I’m far from naive. I’ve seen worse things in this world. For example, I used to live next to a squatter’s area. Also, I was kidnapped once for ransom and another time, my family was tied up and robbed (our security guard and maid conspired to execute this plot). I know what I’m talking about.</p>
<p>It would probably be safer to hire an escort service everytime you walk through lower income areas. Keep a bottle of mace. Wear the most conservative clothing possible. Hug your purse. Walk on the emptier side of the sidewalk. Sit in the empty subway car.</p>
<p>You’ll probably die much later than me(I?), but, if I die tomorrow, I’ll have lived longer than you.</p>
<p>Living in fear isn’t living at all.</p>
<p>What? I’m not living in fear at all.
Also, I’m not a girl. What made you think so?
And I’m not rich… though I used to be. I consider myself poor now, so no, I will not hire an escort service. That’s crazy!</p>
<p>9/10 I hear these stories its from a girl, my bad.</p>
<p>I was hyberbolizing what would happen if you wanted to be as safe as possible and how lifeless you’d become. As far as I’m concerned, walk on.</p>