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There is a line between planning for things your home or workplace (you know where you spend most of your time) and planning for an event that 99.999999999% repeating will not happen, everywhere you go. That line is called paranoia and you crossed it.
There's a rather gaping difference between paranoia and situational awareness. Have you ever run into one of those people immediately stop and reach for their phone when it rings thus causing anyone in their path to have to stop or otherwise avoid them? That person is entirely situationally unaware and they are as much a danger to everyone else as they are to themselves. How about people who just change lanes without ever looking? Same deal.
A situaltionally aware person is constantly paying attention to their surroundings and thinking of ways to avoid issues that might come up. It isn't paranoia at all.