Wealth Wire April 24 2013 (Thanks, A.L.)
“How to defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized. Don’t let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”— Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line
The events of last week seemed straight from the pages of graphic suspense drama…
Macabre images of terror and blood in the streets, cowardly terrorists on the run, and families destroyed by unfathomable tragedy in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.
How could something this horrifying be happening… again?
The most shameful part in all of this is I’ve found it’s often easier to cope with the chaos in our world by treating it as if it were just something we find in the fiction shelves at a local library.
But the reality is pandemonium fills the streets, even if most of us are watching it unfold on television from the comfort of our own living rooms.
This leads us to have difficulty in separating ourselves from the discord that plagues even the strongest of our nation’s cities.
What we must do is begin to accept reality for what it is, not what we wish it to be… Then, and only then, can we as individuals and communities take positive steps forward to overcome the fear that has relentlessly befallen us, especially over the last decade.
Responsively, today’s Americans are suffering the most severe levels of stress to date. Suicide now outranks car accidents in leading cause of injury death in America; one-third of our nation’s employees suffer chronic debilitating stress while millions are dependent on SSRI antidepressants – highly controversial, mood-altering psychiatric drugs with the FDA’s “suicidality” warning label and alarming correlation with school shooters.
Times are tough, and events like the recent Boston Bombing remind us that everyday living is full of unpredictabilities with the power to transform individuals, families, communities, and the world at large.