Things that Keep You Awake at Night

[Rage Inc.]

Until 2000, I just had the usual concerns, the occasional anxiety/panic attacks, that any man in his late thirties experienced: Is my wife still "into me" after seven years of marriage? Are my son and two daughters okay? Will they be okay in the future? Just your average, entirely boring set of worries.

Then I saw five so-called "Justices" throw the Presidency to a man who was clearly not qualified, and who had obviously NOT been elected!

Then, nine months later, September 11. You know, I initially supported Bush in his attack on Afghanistan, that is, until I belatedly realized that "bringing bin Laden to justice" and "fighting the war on terror" was merely a pretext for Messrs. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc. to impose their own, twisted visions of "national security" upon the world, and upon us, ably assisted by---I keep coming back to that word again---our "Justice" Department!

Now, bouts of insomnia, such as the one I'm experiencing tonight, are commoplace: Will the President resist the Cheneys and the Kristols and pull ALL of our boys & girls out of Iraq AS PER THE SCHEDULE AGREED TO BY BUSH? We he remain true to his commitment to begin the drawdown of forces in Afghanistan in the middle of next year despite all the chickenhawks and laptop warriors urging him not to? And what of Iran? Will he have the testicular fortitude enabling him to Just Say No to the neocons?

Will we, as a country, again be as stupid as we were in November of '04? Will we idiotically place a Sarah Youbetcha, Batshit Bachmann or Devil's Daughter Liz in the White House?

And, if we do, how the fuck do I move myself and my family to Australia?????

[Rage Inc.]

1. Thank you for sharing with a worried husband and father!

:sarcasm:

[Iggo]

2. Rage, oddly enough. (n/t)

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

3. What keeps me awake at night?

The memory of being in an automobile accident with a mack truck on the Autobahn and my husband's blood dripping onto my legs. Remembering him in the ICU, brain dead. Planning his funeral. Being alone, a widow, not sure of what will become of me. Constant sadness and depression, that shit keeps me awake at night. It might sound selfish but I could give two shits about what is going on in the world right now. None of it matters to me. I'm just trying to keep my head above water.

Australia is a pretty hard country to emigrate to.

[elocs]

4. I thought about emigrating to Australia in the middle 70s and it wasn't hard then.

In fact they were then still looking for people to come there and would pay your passage if you stayed a certain number of years.

I have read many here who speak casually of leaving the U.S. for some other western nation, but good luck with that. Why would they want you or allow you to come in? You had better have a lot of money or some kind of connection to get in to stay and live.

Most people do live lives of quiet desperation. Things that go on in the world that are completely out of my control do not keep me awake at night. I have often been kept awake at night worrying about a loved one though.

[seabeyond]

5. question is, ten yrs later, 17 yrs in marriage, and later 40's (time flies)

is your wife still into you and are your son and daughters ok?