'What does all this mean we should and should not do? We should be mad, we should be sad, we should mourn, we should go through all the rituals that help people through such tragedies. But we shouldn’t freak out or wallow in fear or self-pity. We shouldn’t start worrying that this is going to happen every week, in a mall in Des Moines or the train station in St. Louis. It’s very unlikely. Our police forces are watching out for these things, and they’ve already prevented who knows how many attacks, and they’ll keep doing their best.
But more than that, it’s no way to live. I read this week about a bombing in a restaurant in Israel some years ago. The restaurant was open for business the next day. What we need is precisely that kind of I’m-not-changing-a-thing resilience. The less space terrorism occupies in our brains, the better off we’ll be.' - Tomasky
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/04/22/after-boston-bombings-living-in-fear-is-no-way-to-live.html
