I am not sure if it was from YESTERYEAR where in the Boy Scouts I earned the SAFETY merit badge or something but I think it is a good thing to
Think Safety Everywhere You Go.
Having taken that merit badge class I look back on it, and while none of us is perfect at that, I think it should have probably been a high school seminar at least. REALTOR safety with open houses and clients, water safety, driving safety, around the house safety preventing falls and fires, sports safety, health safety with your life... all important.
When you think about it, buckling up with a seat belt and KNOWING driving slower is better than driving faster with crashes and reaction time and surviving an accident, ALL safety is to look ahead for DANGER and for you to have a good day in the end. The world is not PERFECT and drivers bump or bang into YOU when you were just being sweet and innocent on your sunny day. But you have seat belts and air bags and not a tiny car and you defensive drive to watch out for the idiots. Maybe you don't drive on icy days or through deep water. You are aware of your surroundings with strangers and your environment. You take a martial arts course for protection. You go for regular health check ups and monitor your blood pressure.
Looking in the newspaper of the drunk person at 2 am crashing into the concrete median. Why are they going so fast? Why are they drinking and driving? What are they doing out at 2 am? All choices, and I bet they did not get their Safety merit badge. Life invovles risk, you can sky dive but maybe you tandem jump the first time, are trained, and have a reserve chute. People who die in their 30's and 40's, way before their time, maybe just should have gotten a Safety merit badge class and they could be looking at sunsets in the rocking chair on their porch into their 90's
THINK SAFETY all the time. It is all about YOU having a GOOD DAY !!
And slow down, what is the rush??
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