Good points. I wonder how well you would get used to dangers once they became more familiar.
On the one hand, perhaps because of past depression and perhaps a touch of Total Perspective Vortex, I fear death far less than I did. On the other, in some ways I am indeed naturally cautious (e.g., acting to reduce more conventional health risks) and, now I have children, doubly so because I have to try to stay usefully alive for them: I now actually go to the tornado shelter instead of hoping for an exciting spectacle.
Some people are more genetically wired to be novelty-seeking: perhaps that's part of it. After all, having grown up in England, I did move to Ohio immediately upon graduation. I would have been making more changes in my life if I didn't have to ongoingly earn enough to support my family.
There are still some concerns that bother me. For instance, I didn't like moving to Boston from the point of view of it being a plausible target for terrorist attack; I am similarly not about to move to near the San Andreas Fault. Risks that I can minimize without much compromising my appetite for interesting times that make me feel more alive and engaged do get consequential note: for example, in taking a flight from Edinburgh tomorrow morning, I do have my home address and telephone number affixed to my bag via a hardy luggage tag, and the work laptop in carry-on I backed up this morning to storage that is itself backed up.
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Date: 2016-06-03 08:28 pm (UTC)On the one hand, perhaps because of past depression and perhaps a touch of Total Perspective Vortex, I fear death far less than I did. On the other, in some ways I am indeed naturally cautious (e.g., acting to reduce more conventional health risks) and, now I have children, doubly so because I have to try to stay usefully alive for them: I now actually go to the tornado shelter instead of hoping for an exciting spectacle.
Some people are more genetically wired to be novelty-seeking: perhaps that's part of it. After all, having grown up in England, I did move to Ohio immediately upon graduation. I would have been making more changes in my life if I didn't have to ongoingly earn enough to support my family.
There are still some concerns that bother me. For instance, I didn't like moving to Boston from the point of view of it being a plausible target for terrorist attack; I am similarly not about to move to near the San Andreas Fault. Risks that I can minimize without much compromising my appetite for that make me feel more alive and engaged do get consequential note: for example, in taking a flight from Edinburgh tomorrow morning, I do have my home address and telephone number affixed to my bag via a hardy luggage tag, and the work laptop in carry-on I backed up this morning to storage that is itself backed up.