Does Thinking About Safety Constantly Makes Us Paranoid?

Being a woman we often feel paranoid, as we are always advised by people around us to be careful wherever we go, may that be a fun outing with friends or coming back home from work late in the evening. All this constant reminding never lets us forget the fact for even a minute that we might be unsafe anywhere we are.

If we see it from the perspective of our safety it is totally correct, but we need to ask ourselves. Isn't this making us a bit paranoid? Does being worried about our safety, all the time takes away our right to live our life carefreely?

Thinking about safety is important, but it shouldn't turn someone paranoid

You might have witnessed as well that whenever we go out in public we always feel as if someone is watching us or staring at us with bad intentions, even though no one might be doing it. You can't deny the fact that women around the world are not really safe, we often get to hear news regarding rape cases, murder, or other crimes committed against women. In most such cases, the sufferer is often not served justice. Therefore, people around the world get really conscious about the safety of women from their families, which often leads to more restrictions for the women because ultimately the patriarchal society believes in blaming the sufferer, instead of the person who committed the crime.

In the name of informing the women about what's happening or what can happen to them, society often fills their minds with fear of what might come for them. Apart from this, they are often taught that it will be their fault if anything bad happens to them. This makes women feel conscious about their safety, each and every moment when they are around in the public. This sense of fear is somewhere making us paranoid. Which is now becoming a part of our personality, we don't really feel strange anymore when we find ourselves acting paranoid about our safety in public, we are conditioned into believing it's something really common, but the fact is that it is not.

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The constant paranoia is somehow stripping off our self-confidence in public, as well as our right to live carefreely. One should never be forced to live a life where they need to think about their safety every single moment. As it majorly affects their self-confidence, feeling paranoid about their safety, all the time makes them feel inferior and weak which causes harm to their overall self-esteem. Instead of restricting women from living their life to the fullest, just because of the fear of what might happen to them, We should focus more on creating a surrounding for them where they can feel and be Safe. We shouldn't force them to live under constant paranoia and stress just because we're concerned about them.

So instead of feeling paranoid all the time, we should take all the necessary steps to ensure our safety, keeping in mind the fact that we are not inferior to anybody.

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