ok so i took a little trip this weekend for the fourth....quick trip nothing special....flew out on the 4th...and came back on the 6th...but i noticed something....that was never there before...
and my hope this will not to be taken wrong, im just expressing a consideration that mabye i have not been totally honest with....which is weird for me.....openmindedness has been a way of life ...i have changed somehow.....and its taken quite awhile....anyways....please read my ditty below and comment or not....



I have flown several times since 9/11, but this trip i was seated next to a Arab man.....im not prejudiced in anyway, actually i have belived myself far from....but i found myself watching him.....and even thought to myself ....he better not get up and go to the bathroom...because i was not sure what i was capable of doing..the feeling wasn't just odd it was foriegn...so i ask...what the hell is wrong with me??? Is it this war?....the campaign?....Society??? is the world really starting to come to an end??? maybe a nervous breakdown....

i did the same thing a few months ago and there was about 3 arab guys and i was tripping out and then the plane landed and of course i felt like an idiot

911 changed us all, as individuals, as a society and as a nation. It's called terrorism for a reason friend... sadly enough.... it works

im amazed....seriously amazed...and not in a good way either...

This happened to me on a trip to NY exactly 6 months to the day of 911...well, I was there...my son was freaking out...fear...no other way to explain it.....and yes I do think it is the war, if the war were over, the fear would eventually rest

True.. but terrorism comes in all nationalities.. look at the Oklahoma City bombing..

exactly....

That's a natural product of our primitive, reptilian brains. This is the part of our brain which deals with perceived threats. Because of the imminent danger of most threats in nature (where our brain originally developed), we have a very basic binary dichotomy when it comes to threats. That is, we auto-classify everything into "good" or "bad" when it comes to threats which may be imminent. There is no middle ground in these situations, and the subconscious brain errs on the side of safety by categorizing threats as "bad" unless they are very clearly "good".

Thanks to evolution and civilization, we have developed a much more advanced brain, and are able to analyze larger problems with more variety than "good" and "bad". However, it is innate for us when a threat is imminent that we use our reptilian brain involuntarily, and we're stuck with those two simple choices.

hey there lady!!!!!

yes its normal......I still flinch when the explosions are sounding on the 4th......
atleast I dont hit the ground and look for artillary rounds anymore

it takes time to heal!!!!

You answerd your own question. it's "Society" It's what is pushed on the news, the news papper etc etc. How can one not feel a certain way knowing for years. Socity pushes so many thing in so many ways...

Yanno, said Arab guys probably sit on these flights wondering if one accidental wrong move will lead to the 6 rows nearby to dogpile them...