Excuses to the Handbook

What is it that makes us truly scared? Is is conditioning or is it natural instinct? In a not so recent article of Psychology Today, there was an article about how the closest thing to being a victim of a violent crime, is serving as juror on the Trial. When you have your friends, your true confidants, you are leaving them with your experiences, your life, a thumb print of your own trial's. We live life like there isn't this " handbook" as to how to live. You find people you trust, the people you admire, and you learn from what they have. I have lost a lot of time figuring out what I would have known had I actually listened. So with experience, or instinct, there isn't much of an excuse for how I've been living...