This June, my school orchestra and I are flying to Disneyworld (from Minneapolis to Orlando) for the Disney orchestra days, or something like that. I am looking forward to the trip, but not looking forward to flying there or back.
I was in 4th grade when 9/11 happened, which gave me my semi-phobia of flying. I have only flown once round trip since then, but my fear still lingers. I'm a bit afraid of terrorism, and sometimes my mind plays awful scenarios in my head about a bomb going off in the plane, or something like that. Oddly, I'm not scared of anything else going wrong.
I consider myself a rational person. I know that everyday there are 30000+ smooth flights everyday in the US. I know there hasn't been a successful major attack in the US since 9/11. And I know that out of the millions of flights in past years, there have only been a handful of incidents that resulted in fatalities in the US. But even the most rational people can still have wild imaginations and fears. I just think, "What if it's the one plane I'm on that a terrorist targets?" It doesn't help that the government has said that Al Qaeda will likely plan an attack within the next six months.
I know that everything will likely be okay. I'm not losing sleep or fearing for my life. But it would help to have everyday people and fliers reassure with reason and/or statistics. Thanks, and please don't post just to troll about my irrational fear.
I was in 4th grade when 9/11 happened, which gave me my semi-phobia of flying. I have only flown once round trip since then, but my fear still lingers. I'm a bit afraid of terrorism, and sometimes my mind plays awful scenarios in my head about a bomb going off in the plane, or something like that. Oddly, I'm not scared of anything else going wrong.
I consider myself a rational person. I know that everyday there are 30000+ smooth flights everyday in the US. I know there hasn't been a successful major attack in the US since 9/11. And I know that out of the millions of flights in past years, there have only been a handful of incidents that resulted in fatalities in the US. But even the most rational people can still have wild imaginations and fears. I just think, "What if it's the one plane I'm on that a terrorist targets?" It doesn't help that the government has said that Al Qaeda will likely plan an attack within the next six months.
I know that everything will likely be okay. I'm not losing sleep or fearing for my life. But it would help to have everyday people and fliers reassure with reason and/or statistics. Thanks, and please don't post just to troll about my irrational fear.