I, too, have never liked crowds. I prefer the quiet of Nature. Most people don't get it, and as you say, "you do you, I'll do me." As for all the shootings, I know things can and do happen everywhere. I was enjoying the peace of my backyard yesterday evening, as I watched my neighbor, a cop, go off to work, with his bullet-proof vest. "We'll probably have a few shootings tonight," he told me, as pulled out of the driveway. "That's just how it is now," he added.