It really makes you think, doesn't it?

It really makes you think, that is a phrase a lot of people have been using lately. They talk about the war, or a school shooting, any kind of tragedy either large or small and some one will say, in a sighing tone,"It really makes you think, doesn't it?". This phrase is now on my list of stupid things people seem to be programmed to say. Listen, if something has to make you think you my already be too far gone, mentally, to really be a part of the civil population. i am a thinking person, every time I go anywhere, I am thinking. I think about all the bad things that happen to people, I think about the possibility of any of these things happening to me. I even tend to wonder what the odds are that a chunk of asteroid will make it's way through our atmosphere and plummet through my skull at 2000 feet per second. I sometimes check the skyline for snipers on various rooftops. I also tend to wonder why that guy coming toward me has his hand in his jacket, or why those two guys seem to be splitting off around me, instead of staying together on the street. It doesn't take a mass tragedy for me to think about how many bad things happen to people every day all over the world, I have an active brain and a wild imagination, so I walk the street just thinking. Some people will tell me I am paranoid but that is not the case. Many people on our planet just walk around in a bubble they have created for themselves. In these bubbles, no harm can come to them, they are safe in their makeshift kingdoms, the walls of denial protecting them from any outer onslaught. That just leads to another dumb expression, "I never saw it coming", or it's brother,"I didn't think it would happen to me". Well of course you never saw it coming, you weren't looking for it, that is what makes you such an easy target. If you give anyone the opportunity to A) attack someone who seems to have an active role in their surroundings, head on a swivel, eye contact, all that good stuff, or B) attack someone who is just meandering down the street seemingly lost in their own little world and not really aware of their surroundings, who do you suppose they will attack? Well, surprise being a great weapon in any fight, they will attack the oblivious person. Do lions attack healthy, aware, obviously defensive animals? No, they attack the weak or the sick, or the ones that just stupidly wander into their territory looking lost and asking where they might find a phone and how they will gladly give you some money for the information if you would just kindly follow them to an ATM. Don't find something that makes you think, just think, expect the unexpected and the out of the ordinary. Homosapien: Latin, wise man or knowing man. The name alone implies the ability to think via our own channels. I want to see it coming, I want a chance to move out of the way, I will always hope for the best but expect the worst and, no matter how much reality television tries to stop me, I will always think for myself. On that note, I hate the singing of Kelly Clarkson and think she is a fatty.