After my first heart attack, I was convinced that it was only a short matter of time until the next one. I was afraid to sleep since my heart might be attacked at any moment, and I wanted to be there when it happened. (Many people who have experienced a heart attack fear another one more than death.)
One of the problems with experiencing any catastrophe is that the body deeply fears that it will inevitably happen again, that since one catastrophe happened, another is imminent. The rational mind has very little say in the matter. The brain chemistry has changed and the brain wiring is different.
Red Alert!! Severe Danger!! Run for the Hills!!
It has been over six years since the attacks of September 11. Is anybody out here still afraid that something similar might happen again?
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Except perhaps for the last century, the likelihood was that one would die fairly young from illness or violence and die violently. This kind of fear and vigilance about the world being a dangerous place used to be the norm. I remind myself that I am already twice as old as most Romans ever lived to be.
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Some of the people reading the last two blogs got a little giddy listening to all those optimistic and happy songs. As an antidote, I would suggest listening to these songs of gloom, doom and despair. Listen to them over and over, wallow in them, sing them all day.
Sometimes the way out is through.
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Songs of Disasters
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This is the End, The Doors (theme song from Apocalypse Now)
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Eve of Destruction, Barry McQuire r
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot
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Springhill Mine, The Dubliners
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Wreck on the Highway, Dixon Brothers
...Eve of Destruction, Barry McQuireCatastrophic
Images of Catastrophes
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Laser blows up Mt. Fuji
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So Much for the Pyramids
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Crash of the Hindenburg, in full color
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The Titanic
Dr. Strangelove
Space shuttle Columbia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8SDwFiDXlQ
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News Article
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Fearing death more than a heart attack
Fearing death more than a heart attack
