JDog

purdy but scary.

It looked a lot less scary in person. It was quiet and peaceful (and completely devoid of people). There was also an amazing orange light on the horizon across the lake. It might have signified that Rochester was burning to the ground but it looked nice.

It looks like 3 giant alien heads coming straight for you!

i hate to think of someone alone in a spot like that. and i also hate that i hate it! i used to be a lot braver - more stupidly oblivious to danger? - than i am. now i often think of just how illusory the protective barrier is between us. it's basically all attitude.

I'd like to think I was a lot braver before. Truth be told, I think I'm a lot braver now. Probably just as well really - my 20's were adventurous enough without me going and being braver!

...Although, the 20's (esp. the early years) are fraught with situations arising due to plain, ordinary stupidity rather then bravery. One has to be aware of consequences before being afraid of them.

yeah, lots of situations arising, decisions made sometimes in a matter of minutes, that only in retrospect seem risky. Getting into cars with semi-unknowns, at bar closings, whatever, absolutely nothing bad in mind, all you think is, I'll be home in 5 minutes instead of an hour, or Sure, let's stop by your buddy's for a bit, listen to music, relax, just the obvious, "half-full" view. I think it's a miracle any of us made it past age 30.

past 23! :)

I'm much braver now than I used to be. Mostly, I think, because I understand the statistics relating to how safe an area is. I choose lighted streets over dark ones, etc. Not to mention that in this case it was too darn cold for any baddies to be out. ;)

A lot of society is built on trust ... most people are decent and just want to live a quiet, safe life and so let other people go on about their business unmolested.

open for debate, i guess. it's probably true on the surface that we're peaceful beings. but i think each of us also has that threshold of tolerance beyond which, well, anything's possible. i think we just don't know how we'd act until we're met with that one triggering event, accompanied with that one ideal opportunity to act.

statistics are helpful to a degree in assessing risk. but i mean, i work in insurance! all you need is that one other person out there who decides to go at you, perhaps even with no reason at all.

I agree ... but it's unlikely that my walking on the boardwalk on any given night will be anyone's trigger. (Having said that ... I didn't walk to far!) And, thinking about insurance: if bad things were the rule and not the exception insurance wouldn't work ... all of us pay for insurance so that the minority of us can benefit when something goes awry.

walk TOO far. Too to two toque. Stupid language.

well... ok then!