I had a great sleep last night. Elizabeth didn’t wake until 5am and so I slept the whole night through (if 5am can be considered a civilized time to wake.) Let’s hope she sleeps well again tonight. My fictitious intruder has vanished as well. I think I got too tired to be bothered conjuring up morbid scenarios. Only two more nights alone as we have a visitor from Christchurch coming to stay with us on Sunday night and then my wonderful husband gets back on Monday.
I’ve received a lot of flak recently about my desire to live somewhere that doesn’t experience earthquakes (or at least away from the tectonic plate boundary as I’m well aware that earthquakes can happen anywhere). If I said to someone that I don’t wish to live in Christchurch because I don’t like it as a city, why is that a more acceptable reason than saying I’m scared of earthquakes? If someone chooses not to live in Australia because they’re scared of snakes then that would be perfectly acceptable to me even though I am not scared of snakes myself. I have likewise heard people say they don’t want to live in the UK or US because they’re scared of terrorists. I am not scared of terrorists but I don’t accuse those people of having “demons”. I was living in the UK during some high-profile IRA bombings. I was not worried for my own safety at the time. There are lots of things people are afraid of like heights, bush fires, spiders, terrorists, earthquakes, illness, their children being abducted (me), plane travel, losing money, their partners leaving them…it goes on and on. If you are reading my blog, what are you scared of? And if you say you are not afraid of anything, then you may be suffering from Urbach-Wiethe disease. Or you are possibly not a member of homo sapiens.
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