I’ve been an anxious person most of my whole life… something that started in the midst of family troubles when I was around ten years old and kind of clung to me like a musty smell throughout my life.
I guess it takes something very instructive in how “out of control” we all really are to make us stop worrying. For me, this was becoming pregnant with my first child. What an awesome, horrible responsibility! What a terror when you think of all the things that could go wrong! Well, you know what? I woke up one day, and realized that the pregnancy was progressing despite my worries, that I had no control over the growth of this little person outside of some very basic and meager to-do’s and not-to-do’s.
Once I realized this, I stopped worrying. If the process of life (chance, fate, whatever) can proceed without my interference or anxiety in this matter, it can in the rest of my own life, too. So, really, I’ve stopped worrying, and realized that there are limits to how responsible I am or can be for what happens to myself and those I love.
Good luck to everyone on this! It’s worth reconsidering the habit of worry.
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I just recently completed the mid-country route, from Charleston, through Washington DC, through Chicago, to San Francisco, via the waist of the nation.
If you do it, I suggest a sleeper car if you are anything but young and very determined. Sleeping isn’t so easy as long stretches of the tracks are very bumpy and the train tends to speed through sections of Nebraska and Iowa.
You will be spectacularly rewarded, however, with the views through Colorado, particularly the Rockies, with stunning vistas of rocky outcrops, gorges and rivers, and also of the Sierra, where you careen past Donner Lake and have top-of-the-mountain surveys.
Fun, if somewhat tiring. I look forward to someday taking the route along the north of the country, through Wyoming, etc.
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Well, I took the lazy way out and just bought one for the car, as we have always stocked extra water in the house, and I have a very well-stocked cupboard, so we would be fine for at least a week if stuck at home with no way to get extra stuff.
I figured, in terms of purchasing vs. making the car kit, that it would be better for me to just spend the extra dough and know it was taken care of, rather than wait too long and still not have a kit when I needed one.
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