I find it impossible to ignore the possibility of catastrophic failure.  I'm not sure if this is from being an engineer, or if it's because I'm not a kid anymore.  When you're a kid, you're invincible; nothing bad could possibly happen to you.  But now that I'm a "grownup", I'm always afraid something terrible is gonna happen to me.  Whenever I go to Great Adventure, I have a hard time enjoying the rides because I think about what could go wrong.  Not stuff like, "Oh the ride might not work."  Stuff like, "This metal death train traveling at 120 m.p.h. could so easily lift off the track and go careening into the cold, hard earth that it would make my body literally pop."  As I was on top of the world's tallest, fastest roller coaster, it was really cool, but I was thinking about how much it would hurt if we fell from 456 feet in the air.  Or imagine if a bird happened to fly in front of us as we were going 120 m.p.h.  It wouldn't just bounce off us, like in the cartoons.  It would most likely decapitate someone.  These are the things I think about. 

Recently, I decided to try to almost sorta get in some sort of semi-shape, so I ate some Ho-Ho's and went for a bike ride.  But as I was gaining speed going down the hill near our house, I couldn't help but think about what would happen if I hit a pothole and flipped the bike or if I slipped off the seat and became a woman.  Of course I can't just enjoy the ride or concentrate on being healthy.  I think about the worst possible things happening; catastrophic failure.  Why do I think about these things? #psychology