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You hunt? A hunter is "turned on". Most people aren't. Maybe New Yorkers. People who live near crack alleys have to be. Most people aren't. That intense quick-reaction situational awareness is not necessarily a good thing.

There's war mode and then there's peace mode. Most people are in peace mode. And should be.

No, I am in the mode of paying attention to my surroundings. I guess it comes with being in the military all those years. I am aware of my surroundings every time I venture out. YOU NEVER know what might happen and what actions you might have to take to protect yourself and your family. It is not a big, happy, tame, calm world out there anymore. Beaver and Wally are not skipping down the sidewalks all happy and content. It is a severely damaged and dangerous world out there now. Kids getting grabbed off the street going to school, shooters in schools, in malls, and the bad guys out there wanting to blow up a few million of us. You might be in the "peace" mode, but I am not. I haven't been since I hit the ground in An Khe, Republic of Vietnam in August 1970. Ever since, I have always paid attention to my surroundings. I always keep one eye looking out for something wrong. Several times in my life it has come in very handy.

You hunt? A hunter is "turned on". Most people aren't. Maybe New Yorkers. People who live near crack alleys have to be. Most people aren't. That intense quick-reaction situational awareness is not necessarily a good thing.

That explains my husband, I guess. He grew up in a few bad (Tacoma) neighborhoods. Where his mom still lives in the Eastside is where the DC Sniper shot his Tacoma victim. (Plus, his parents were involved in drugs and with sketchy people when he was a kid.) He's always aware of everything in his surroundings and picks up details I don't (and I am more aware than many are.)