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A life of fear is not worth being lived. I don't think all this overhead of "preparing" for those unlikely scenarios is worth it, especially since being in the
by Hexstream 18y ago
A life of fear is not worth being lived. I don't think all this overhead of "preparing" for those unlikely scenarios is worth it, especially since being in the situation it's likely you'll forget all your "preparation" and you'll screw up anyway.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoAlso a very good point. I don't live a life of fear. I just gaily lose possessions from time to time. On my second trip to Europe I had my $400 digicam pickpocketed in a touristy Paris metro station [1]. That made me sad, so I decided to stop carrying around $400 digicams in touristy places. On my third trip to Europe I carried a $10 disposable film camera in a day bag that I had gotten for free as a donation gift. The bag was stolen (from behind the desk at a museum, where I had checked it) on the second day of my trip. And I laughed a lot (the most difficult part of the whole thing was convincing the despondent museum staff that I wasn't badly hurt by the loss and didn't want to accept a cash settlement from an obscure but interesting museum) and I had a lot of fun shopping for a new disposable camera and a nice new cheap bag which I use to this day. --- [1] Montmartre. Home of some fine pickpocket talent -- back then, at any rate.