[FossilFool]

I'll admit it. I have cried today and a couple days ago about Peak Oil. I don't know if I am doing the right things in my life to be prepared and not knowing when it's coming and the effect causes me a lot of anguish.

[Schneider]

Me too !

One time (a "long" time ago) ,i did cried while listening "What a wonderfull World" from Amstrong ...

I was so sad for humandkind that day !

Schneider
French-Canadian

[Dukat_Reloaded]

Not me, I keep on my happy face

[venky]

Remember shivering while reading LATOC. Scared the hell outta me.

Now its off and on, despair and optimism. These frequent mood swings are getting rather tiring though.

[smiffy]

I just looked at my 2 children, Jasmine 3 years and Enya 1 years old.

Did i cry? I'm crushed and numb with pain.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smiffy', 'I') just looked at my 2 children, Jasmine 3 years and Enya 1 years old.

Did i cry? I'm crushed and numb with pain.

[TorrKing]

Peak oil brings new opportunities. I have always been doing bushcraft and I feel that I finally will recieve respect and success for that. While the stuck up "future minded" people with fancy degrees will end up being little more than bums on the street. If they survive that is

Torjus Gaaren

[Ludi]

Nope. I've been scared, but not sad.

[Raxozanne]

I've cried in frustration at my families constant blind reassurances that 'they will think of something'.

[bob_loblaw]

I haven't cried for what I fear losing, (creature comforts)

but I have cried with sadness watching reports of recent events that have splashed across my television screen. The man in NO who had lost his wife, brought me to full on tears. The children in Pakistan, freezing to death filled me with such sadness and anger it made me cry.

Mostly though, I echo most of you in my sadness for mandkind in general. Considering the reactions of the few people I have tried to talk to, and no clue how I'll tell family w/o them thinking I'm completely off my rocker.

Lately I focus on what I can do. Although I don't have children of my own, my girlfreind has two little girls. It changes everything..

[FossilFool]

I cried because I don't know the effect it will have and I am at a crossroads in my life where I have to decide. I can hurry up and prepare for a big crash or I could get trained and come out in a soft landing scenario. It's perplexing. I could end up in bad shape either way. And the Iranian Oil Bourse got me frantic about March and about the Straits of Hormez and if they become unstable. I just wish I knew fr sure when TSWHTF, but I don't.

[TorrKing]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FossilFool', 'I') just wish I knew fr sure when TSWHTF, but I don't.

[AmericanEmpire]

When I first read life after the oil crash I was just stunned. I couldn't believe that it was all gonna end this way. It was like something out of a horror sci-fi film. I guess facts are stranger than fiction sometimes.

Now I'm just mostly pissed off that I have to deal with a civilization collapse.

[BO]

I almost never cry, my wife tells me I should, that its good stress relief. I have mostly convinced her that Petro-Collapse will be the real deal, but she still thinks of everything in terms of "Business as usual" in the future. We have a 7 week old daughter, (I am trying to convince her that we shouldn't have any more.) She talks about private versus public schools, I tell her we must home school, period.

I was an accountant by occupation, last July, when I found out about PO, I had suspicions something was wrong on the resources front before that though. After thourough investigation: LATOC, Kunstler, Lundberg, Simmons, Ruppert, etc., I subscribed to the doomer scenario and began preparing.

In September I sold my practice, and put the townhome we had just bought in June on the market. We moved near downtown Delray Beach, (walking, biking distance), near a working rail system, and several farmers markets, took a job on a produce and tree farm, doing private accounting.

I originally thought we would have several years to prepare, now I am not so sure. We are thinking about moving back to Northeast, near family. I think Florida will be an ugly place to be in a few years.

All of it makes me want to cry, even though I can't. I try to tell family and freinds about it, and they just get mad, "I don't want to talk about it!" they shout.

Every day seems a little bit more like the "Matrix", it reminds me of the movie line:


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')ypher: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy, and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realise? Ignorance is bliss.

[Laurasia]

Yes, I've cried on many occasions - thinking about my two sons and their wives and little children, my grandchildren, wondering what kind of lives they will have. And I think about my mother and sister and nephews in England, and how one day it will cost too much to go and see them ever again ( that is a brutal realisation!). And lastly, because I was inspired by the space programme, which I always thought would go on from height to soaring height towards a Star Trek future - well, it's not going to happen.

However, comfort comes from planning and turning one's dreams in another direction, followed by action, no matter how small.

Regards,

L.

[Daculling]

Nope, never cried but sometimes I get really angry and scream at the TV and beat my fists on the walls. Does that count for anything? Scares the hell out of my cats.

[antspice]

i have cried a few times and have been on the verge of crying a few times, upset by the society i loved and hated, my family and the people i respect and value.

[threadbear]

I am just mainly in awe of the political situation in the US and am very preoccupied trying to figure out when peak oil is actually going to be a serious problem, geologically speaking. Perhaps ten or twenty years, without all the manufactured fascistic political crises?

So I don't ever feel like crying, about peak oil. I just get good and steamed and want to strangle someone. Is that so wrong?

[BAM]

No

But I do find the monster that lives in my closet very scary

[1actmatters]

I have cried, because it makes me crazy to go about my daily life, though the very infrastructure of our country is totally unacceptable, the consequences of our behaviour as a society are intolerable. I cry for the millions , perhaps billions, that will never know what it feels like to have eaten enough food to be content, who have no "safe haven", the hundreds of millions of refugees, the many animal species suffering as their habitats shrink. I cry at the violent ignorance I encounter when I attempt to discuss these things with my extended family, and others.

I am pleased that I am living in more sustainable ways more every day. I am glad I can take my electric car ( gizmo made by NEVCO-) for all my transportation needs around the city.
I am glad I can choose to purchase cleaner energy from my power company, for just a little extra ($6-8 per month).

I am glad there are other conscious individuals (ie... YOU) out there trying to take this on with eyes wide open.

A