I was walking with my wife on a confined road when we saw people running and screaming "bear".
I immediately noticed the danger because any bear would be comming down the sloap and there was verry little room to get out of the way.
My wife took her phone and was trying to get closer.
I had to drag her and she made fun of me.
That is untill the mama bear with her cub came running down, then she started screaming and pannicking. I've never hit her in my life, but that moment I felt like punching her in the face, mostly to shut her up and make her move.
She was not alone, a lot of people were doing the same.
I was dumbstruck by how oblivious and heard-like people behave.
I know I was blindsighted in the past by danger, mostly because of my young macho self.
But my grandpa told me countless stories about survival and being prepared, and thankfully nowdays I try never to ignore my gut feeling.
If your gut feeling tells you something's not right, LISTEN and ACT -- acting usually means move out of harms way, fast.
It could be, the funny thing is my wife is very easily startled -- countless times she screamed at me in our own house that I surprised her/scared her.
She's parranoid someone would climb our apartment building and enter through our windows and wants us to install metal bars. I'm mostly against it because I feel perhaps we could use those as an escape in case of fire and because absolutely NO ONE in our vicinity has metal bars on their windows and that would signal we have something valuable inside.
The same time, I have to double check she locked the front door, because she often forgets to do it.
Of course. One can have unhealthy impulses even if one is confident they'll never be acted upon, for a number of reasons. I was actually more concerned about the impact such a toxic thought would have upon you than I was worried about the safety of your partner. I highly doubt you would have ever acted upon said intrusive thought; that doesn't mean there cannot be negative impacts of such involuntary ideas.
I immediately noticed the danger because any bear would be comming down the sloap and there was verry little room to get out of the way.
My wife took her phone and was trying to get closer.
I had to drag her and she made fun of me.
That is untill the mama bear with her cub came running down, then she started screaming and pannicking. I've never hit her in my life, but that moment I felt like punching her in the face, mostly to shut her up and make her move.
She was not alone, a lot of people were doing the same.
I was dumbstruck by how oblivious and heard-like people behave.
I know I was blindsighted in the past by danger, mostly because of my young macho self.
But my grandpa told me countless stories about survival and being prepared, and thankfully nowdays I try never to ignore my gut feeling.
If your gut feeling tells you something's not right, LISTEN and ACT -- acting usually means move out of harms way, fast.