I had a sobering moment yesterday morning –
I was driving with some co-workers, and one of them told us how she had gone on a jog that morning. She was telling us where she jogged, and she said, “I went down this road at first, but there was no traffic so I didn’t think it was safe, and I turned back.”
I’m sitting there thinking, “…wouldn’t it be safer because there was no traffic?”
But I’m 6-foot-4, 260lbs. My biggest fear about jogging on the side of the road is being hit by a car.
She’s 5-foot-nothing, 110lbs. Her biggest fear is running into someone with bad intentions and having no one else around. Put another way, she’ll risk getting hit by a car rather than take the chance of getting stuck alone in a bad situation.
I thought about that for a long time.