I don’t follow the news or read much about it, now you’re scaring me Duma. Lol
It is an awareness as we grow older.
As a young kid, I lived in the swamp land of narleans. The pond behind me is notorious of drowning a few of my friends. Every year, one or a few kids in the neighborhood drowned. We young kids, we don't care, all we know how to do is play. Here's an illustration to what our neighborhood bridge would look like.
As you can see, the middle of the bridge, we have pipe lines of all sizes and they would run from one side to the other. If you slip and fall, you may die. There is not one kid in the neighborhood that I know of, including myself that did not take a dare to walk across them pipes. On the walk to school, we would cross these types of bridges and you know that on any given school days, how many kids would do these dares. It is like they walked once, twice and they think they are a pro at it until they slip and fall to their death because the water below is deep and muddy looking. I slipped and fell once but lucky for me, my leg got caught in between a few pipes and I was dangling and crying for help. A local guy walking by helped me and even if I did fell right there, I would of landed near the bank so I'll still be good.
We would often fish at the bank of such water and mind you, it is infested with alligator. If you know how they would attack to feed like go underwater and snap you at the bank of the river, you would not want to stand anywhere near the edge of the water. We did for years and we got lucky. There is also a type of deadly snake called the water moccasin. They would either sun bathing by the bank, on a log or swimming in the river. They are just as deadly as a rattle snake but with rattle snakes, at least they rattle to give you a warning. We would catch these snakes by using a string at the end of our bamboo stick and we would put it in a pickle jar and just watch it die.
Good thing we have no aligator here in california or else I would never go fishing. They do have good fishing in Florida and that is why you hear cases of alligator swimming by while you fish or they just walked causally across a golf course.
Awareness is important but at the same time, it can make a man weak. Ok, it makes me weak.
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