What next

Not far from where we live in London is a place called the Hackney marshes

We like to walk through them and over the canal to Springfield Park (above), a really pleasant converted house and cafe with a large park around it looking down on the canal and marshes

One day we were walking along towards the park when suddenly four or five police cars rushed past sirens blaring lights flashing

A police helicopter then arrived and started circling over head

The policemen jumped out of their cars, fanned out and started walking across the marshes

A real live manhunt for some local who had gone on the run

What was unusual was the place as the road and area is usually quiet and relatively unused

Made us think we have got so used to the police and police cars coming in and out of our street

Police helicopters flying around the neighbourhood at all hours of the day and night

The local teen gang hanging out opposite our apartment

That it is almost unusual not to have something going down somewhere around us

Question?

How is the area around where you live?

Is it quiet and peaceful or is it noisy?

Is it a safe area?

And then up one is it potentially dangerous?

Is there potential danger around where you live?

How are you with this?

For us we have no fear because of the way we experience life

Maybe as a result things are fine

Several of our neighbours want out

They have fear

And have experienced violence, robbery and mugging

We want out as well but more for the lack of cleanliness than the violence potential

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Fearing violence often attracts violence

Fearing robbery often attracts robberies

In other words what you fear is what you attract

You might argue that this is not true

But as you can never be totally sure that you are correct why not just take out some insurance?

Let go your fears

They really do provoke what you are frightened of

Yup