To master my fears, I would try to position myself so that I was the first in line to jump. I found that meeting the challenge head on was the best way to deal with it. Sometimes we learn more from our mistakes and our failures than we do from our successes. San Jose One of the terrible things about war is that when people are fighting a lot of things that are abnormal in peace time suddenly become normal like killing people. That is why soldiers hate war even more than civilians.
War is evil, but it is sometimes necessary to prevent an even worse evil.
My parents are divorced and it stinks. I am sorry your parents divorce has caused you so much pain. Everybody suffers when a marriage breaks up. But sometimes divorce is better than forcing people to remain married after they have grown apart from each other. There was a time when it was a lot harder to get a divorce than it is now.