Mood? What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises — no matter the mood! Mood’s a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It’s not for fighting. — Gurney Halleck

My Take – You never know where you’re going to be, what you’re going to be doing, or how you will be feeling when the worst happens.  Maybe you’ll be asleep in your bed at 3 AM and hear the window break.  Maybe you’ll be exhausted after a long day at work when someone shoves a gun through your car window and demands the keys.  You could be feeling sick as a dog, just trying to get home and go back to bed, when the guy on the sidewalk demands your wallet.

The key is, as much as you are able, to be watchful of what goes on around you, to know what you are capable of, and be prepared to fight, no matter the circumstances.  If we could predict the time, place, and circumstances of the need for self-defense, we would avoid them.  Since we live in the real world, never forget that bad things happen when we are most distracted.