Every now and then my anxiety gets the best of me. Yesterday was one of those days. A commercial for survivalseedbank.com caught my attention and inevitably got me panicked. I started googling "food shortage 2010" and "food crisis 2010". Apparently, there are many people who believe there will be a massive food shortage sometime this year due the lack of good crops in 2009 and the USDA's food projections? Something like that. I'm not an expert, but if you google those topics, you'll have plenty of scary reading material. Andy is convinced this won't happen, but has no evidence to back up his claim. He also refused to read any articles about the topic. So I'm wondering now if I need to stock up on food? Is anyone else worried? I'd love to grow a garden but living in an apartment makes that difficult. Plus, I'm lazy. These articles make me really anxious and very nervous for the future. I wish my brain didn't always jump to worse case scenario, but I can't seem to help it. Prices at grocery stores have already increased this year, and I'm wondering if that is just the beginning of what is to come? I'd love to hear other thoughts on this.
Friday night was supposed to be my relaxing night with Isla being at her sleepover and Andy hanging out with my brother. I was going to clean, watch a girly movie, lounge in bed, and fall asleep covered in cookie crumbs from the yummy Jewel cookies I bought myself. Instead, I googled information about a possible food crisis THE ENTIRE NIGHT. I am awesome. The sad thing is, I have the "tools" to deal with this kind of anxiety, but I have an overwhelming need to find as much information as I can about a topic, as a way of feeling more prepared. I felt like if I were to stop "researching" that I wouldn't be prepared for this potential disaster and I'd be letting my family down. It really sucks feeling that way.
Oh, the really scary things I found came from religious websites quoting pages from the bible regarding world famine, earthquakes, and wars being the start of the end. I hate stumbling upon those. I already have enough to worry about, I don't have time to worry about the official end of the world right now!
Anyway, so in closure let's discuss some things: 1. Has anyone else heard of this or been worrying about this? 2. Should we be worrying about this? 3. Are you going to stock up on food, or just hope this doesn't happen? I truly value what you have to say, mainly because my family thinks I'm completely crazy and I can't listen to what they tell me anymore.
7 years ago
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Okay, for starts you are not alone in worrying about this or you wouldnt have found all of those articles. But to answer your questions, No I have not heard about all of this (mostly becuase I don't watch the news or read anything anymore for this very reason), I am not concerned that it will actually happen and I am not gonna worry about it! My attitude is live life to the fullest and don't worry about what you cannot control. This is one of those situations, we cannot control the food supply or the cost of food so why even think about it. And you stocking up on food will only get you so far (you don't have a bomb shelter to fill with food) so even if you do stock up it will only last a couple months at most. I say - let it go, don't worry about it and stop researching it. I know that is proabably so much easier for me to say being as I live day to day and don't worry about the future much. Next time you get stressed put Isla in the stroller and go for a long walk - take in the beautiful country we live in, makes you appreciate every single day and helps you forget the worries of the future!!
1. No I've never heard of this. Though I did do a google search after reading this post, and I have to admit I'm skeptical of most of the articles that came up. Many of them seemed to be on alarmist type sites, or sites with clear political/social agendas.
2. I don't know, people can do a lot with statistics. I'm sure there's something to it buddy, but I highly doubt it will be as big of a deal as some of those analysts are predicting. Remember how all the computers were going to crash and nuclear power plants were going to have crazy reactions on Y2K? Remember how nothing really significant happened?
3. I just don't live that way... I can't. It all seems just so pointless, it would be so easy to get caught up in one crisis after another. Life is just too short, I don't want to waste precious time worrying about stuff like that that I have absolutely no control over.
Now, it's easy for me to have this attitude, because honestly, I have never known any differently. I don't have anxiety problems, I really don't even think about stuff like this. So I haven't had to train myself to ignore my anxious thoughts and incessent worrying. I can't imagine what you have to go through. I'm glad you're seeing someone about it though buddy... what does your therapist tell you to do in situations like Friday night?
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