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I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

We all have to be concerned about the world being very dangerous.

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.