Vote of no confidence for the future.

I am back to being paranoid, after reading the second to second details of the harrowing experience of the girl who was almost abducted and God knows what could have happened to her if she had not managed to escape. How truly unsafe our city is now, they are even making their moves in broad daylight, in crowded malls! It' happened so close to home, and thinking it could be myself, or my friends, or worst, my own daughter (after she is all grown up) that I'm feeling very shaky about the kind of life we are living in.

Nowadays, I am very selective where I park my car in the mall I frequent (not that I wasn't before either), preferably near the entrance, or very near to the carwash service. I do avoid going there when I know the timing would be full with cars looking for a parking space as well. Of course, if I can afford to, I would try not to be alone. Worse come to worst, I'm contemplating, I should just send the car for a wash or use the valet parking service! Even then, I really wouldn't want to be out from my home anymore! I'm becoming even more a hermit than before!

Seriously, there is this no-confidence in tomorrow's world, for my children and the future generations. Not only we have to be vigilant of the silent killers, we can't avoid the dreaded big C if it does come. Then, we have to be careful of deadly creepy crawlies or pouncing animals (which rarely happens, but still?), robbers, snatch thieves, abductors, rapists, psychos, all on the prowl anytime of the day, anywhere! I don't even feel safe within my home vicinity! SO SAD!

Then, there are parents raising their kids to be more selfish, "don't let your friends bully you by taking your stuffs", forcing them to do what they think is best for their kids, pampering them with all the holidays and gadgets that's IN (OK! I'm just sour grape *pout*), teaching them bribery from early on with "RM2 for every deed you do as I asked you to", imparting how IMPORTANT it is to get 100% in all their papers, 95 is not even acceptable, the list just goes on! How to be confident in our future generations to be more compassionate, caring, tolerating? I have absolutely no confidence that my kids would find a good spouse when they grow up. Bah!

So, I'm thinking, it is just maybe be a good thing if the world is really coming to an end this year. Let's just all die together! *morbid thoughts*