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OK, the defense just rested, now what?
You may have a day, you may have a week. It's clear-and has been clear- that Zimm is gonna walk. You know those damn Norwegians that always riot and loot won't be happy about the verdict.
NOW WHAT?
Do you get wrapped up in watching things on TV or your smart phone, or do you ACT?
Their will be a window of time to act wherein it should be totally safe, do not waste it "gathering intel" i.e, sitting on your arse watching it on TV.
What about your family? Have you explained all this to them? Are you changing anything? A few months ago we pre-paid for tickets to an event, unfortunately it's happening this weekend in Central Florida. We lost a few bucks cancelling the trip. The reality is we can go whenever the hell we want to go and we will at some point, but not this weekend... My family understands that we put SAFETY in front of convenience. That we can have fun anywhere, anytime we want. That "fun" isn't worth the potential risk.
We could have went and did the "well the trial probably won't finish up then and..." deal. We could have RATIONALIZED anything away regarding this- "well I just HAVE to work so I'll head into cracktown for work that day..." or we could make a small sacrifice and be safe.
Survival often comes down to good decisions, to things like making sure your family really understands, to things like understanding that ANYTHING is replaceable, yes even your business, your car, whatever, but LIFE IS NOT.
Are you going to compromise? Are you going to play all these work around games in your mind that make you feel like staying in a bad area was a good idea?
I'll never forget a former close friend who had literally just had a baby. Even though they had a well prepared comfortable place to go away from the storm, he stayed home during a hurricane. The hurricane came right at his town. He called me up a few days later all "proud" of his minor accomplishments like replacing a blown starting capacitor in his well, how he ran his generator during this time and cut up a few fallen branches with his chainsaw, all I'm sure big accomplishments for this guy. However HE MISSED THE POINT. With a brand new baby, this retard was PUTTING HIS FAMILY IN JEOPARDY by staying instead of leaving and going to a comfortable spot they had prepared ahead of time away from the storm. He was looking for an "attaboy" from me. I gave him REALITY when I said "your an idiot, you have a precious little baby in there and you risked her for what? Go in and tell her your sorry for being a stupid arse and you won't put her at risk again. When it was just you, you could have afforded to be a dumbarse and rode out a hurricane tethered to a flag pole, but you have something valuable there, something you can't replace, grow up and act like a man and more importantly like a frickin Father. "
He didn't like hearing that, but he was a close friend and he NEEDED the wake up call from his (probably) drunken stupor. He was (probably still is) your classic guy who talks constantly about how TS is going to HTF tomorrow, how this or that is fixing to happen, etc. but DOES VERY LITTLE. He was primed and ready to leave as the hurricane approached, but got home, his wife handed him a beer (she knew his weakness and she was not "on board" with survival), he sat down on the couch and started convincing himself everything would be o.k.
Survival is about MITIGATING RISKS not risking everything on stupid gambles.
You may have a day, you may have a week. It's clear-and has been clear- that Zimm is gonna walk. You know those damn Norwegians that always riot and loot won't be happy about the verdict.
NOW WHAT?
Do you get wrapped up in watching things on TV or your smart phone, or do you ACT?
Their will be a window of time to act wherein it should be totally safe, do not waste it "gathering intel" i.e, sitting on your arse watching it on TV.
What about your family? Have you explained all this to them? Are you changing anything? A few months ago we pre-paid for tickets to an event, unfortunately it's happening this weekend in Central Florida. We lost a few bucks cancelling the trip. The reality is we can go whenever the hell we want to go and we will at some point, but not this weekend... My family understands that we put SAFETY in front of convenience. That we can have fun anywhere, anytime we want. That "fun" isn't worth the potential risk.
We could have went and did the "well the trial probably won't finish up then and..." deal. We could have RATIONALIZED anything away regarding this- "well I just HAVE to work so I'll head into cracktown for work that day..." or we could make a small sacrifice and be safe.
Survival often comes down to good decisions, to things like making sure your family really understands, to things like understanding that ANYTHING is replaceable, yes even your business, your car, whatever, but LIFE IS NOT.
Are you going to compromise? Are you going to play all these work around games in your mind that make you feel like staying in a bad area was a good idea?
I'll never forget a former close friend who had literally just had a baby. Even though they had a well prepared comfortable place to go away from the storm, he stayed home during a hurricane. The hurricane came right at his town. He called me up a few days later all "proud" of his minor accomplishments like replacing a blown starting capacitor in his well, how he ran his generator during this time and cut up a few fallen branches with his chainsaw, all I'm sure big accomplishments for this guy. However HE MISSED THE POINT. With a brand new baby, this retard was PUTTING HIS FAMILY IN JEOPARDY by staying instead of leaving and going to a comfortable spot they had prepared ahead of time away from the storm. He was looking for an "attaboy" from me. I gave him REALITY when I said "your an idiot, you have a precious little baby in there and you risked her for what? Go in and tell her your sorry for being a stupid arse and you won't put her at risk again. When it was just you, you could have afforded to be a dumbarse and rode out a hurricane tethered to a flag pole, but you have something valuable there, something you can't replace, grow up and act like a man and more importantly like a frickin Father. "
He didn't like hearing that, but he was a close friend and he NEEDED the wake up call from his (probably) drunken stupor. He was (probably still is) your classic guy who talks constantly about how TS is going to HTF tomorrow, how this or that is fixing to happen, etc. but DOES VERY LITTLE. He was primed and ready to leave as the hurricane approached, but got home, his wife handed him a beer (she knew his weakness and she was not "on board" with survival), he sat down on the couch and started convincing himself everything would be o.k.
Survival is about MITIGATING RISKS not risking everything on stupid gambles.
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