Posts Tagged ‘personal safety’

My mother sent the same text message on my cell phone: buy pepper spray online! She was not contented with texting; she called to check if I received her messages. She added that I should specifically get a Mace Pepper Gun.

Before leaving home to work at a law firm in Washington, my father warned me about the hazards of living alone in a big city. I bought a small apartment in a quiet neighborhood, but still, I want to protect myself more.

Health is wealth, as the saying goes, and I follow a running regimen daily. I could have enrolled in a fitness facility but did not think that methodical exercising is for me.

There are no words to explain how I feel about what happened to my daughter. She was attacked by two drunken boys inside her college campus. She clawed, crawled, hurdled her way out of the assault, barely making it out alive.

I never dreamt I would be living in a huge ten-room house with an Olympic size swimming pool, gazebo, and six-car garage. No, it was not my house, but I was tasked to oversee its upkeep while my bachelor boss travelled abroad to take care of a multinational business.

Michael, my ten-year-old son, loves the Internet. But from the different negative stories I hear on the news about the perils of the net, I started asking myself, how do I monitor my child’s Internet activity?

An act of robbery cost my son one healthy leg, and precious time that would have been spent going to classes. Instead it went to some months of hospitalization, professional therapy in progress and learning to use a walker. Most of all, it almost cost him his life.

I was never one to bother with how to create safety, security in the home and neighborhood because I lived rather comfortably. When the woman I treasured more than anyone was placed in deadly peril, I made a turnaround.

My husband’s work entails a lot of interstate travel. I can’t exactly come along, being left to manage the business we have in town.

One great skill to acquire is self-defense. With the world crawling with dangerous elements, having knowledge in this area can keep you alive. Any random person could bring down any attacker, no matter the size or number.