Heck, when I was a kid my biggest worry was…well, nothing.
We were supposed to be in fear that the world would end with a nuclear war.
I didn’t really thing about it that much, to be honest.
More worried about getting beat up by some bully or the other kids finding out something hugely embarrassing about me or my family.
> We were supposed to be in fear that the world would end with a nuclear war. <
Yes. During the Cuban Missile Crisis I was in grade school. We’d have air raid drills. As I recall, that never bothered me. And after the Crisis was over nothing more was said about it, or about nuclear war in general.
> More worried about getting beat up by some bully… <
Yes. I had a bit of trouble with a bully in middle school. Then it just stopped. Only later did I find out why. My schoolmates were mainly like me. Grandkids of immigrants from Eastern Europe. We had only two black kids in my grade level.
Well, these two black kids took the bully aside, and told him to lay off or they’d beat the crap out of him.
Interesting, eh?
Don't know about you ...
My recollection is that we knew about it, occasionally talked about it, but mostly just accepted it as reality and went on with our lives. Our lives weren't dominated by fear of nuclear WWIII.