Another dream drive-by...please forgive.

[Celebration]

3. I do think it is hard when you have children

I used to worry constantly about my kids. Then one time I kind of really lost it, when my daughter was taking a cross country trip to Yellowstone Park, where she had a job. At the time the cell service there was really, really bad. She did not contact me as I thought she would and I ended up calling the Park Rangers--also I woke up the parents of someone that she was with.

Of course all of this was for no reason, really. Everything was fine. It was a kind of turning point for me. I made a sort of logical decision to have normal rather than abnormal amounts of anxiety about my kids, on the idea that worrying about safety in no way shape or form changed the outcome. So, what was the purpose?

It isn't as if I don't worry now--I do, but it is more of just the normal thing, rather than letting it get over the top. There just isn't a point to it.