What to do if a war breaks out? How to deal with the war situation?

If I had to make a list of all things I am terrified of, “war” would take first ten places.

Technically, I survived a war. I was born in 1995 in Serbia, during Yugoslav wars. I was around four during NATO bombings.

Is it because of semi personal experience or something else, I am not sure, but I am dead afraid of war. I have heard stories about it (although, truth be told, people aren’t really enthusiastic to talk about it. Except the nationalists (who are mostly teenagers born after the war), and then the whole story turns into playing historians and a “who is guilty” debate).

People have had their lives ruined by war. I am afraid of ending up in a war. I feel it would destroy my mind.

and then I hear about tension rising between Serbia and Croatia again, with someone even remarking that the whole thing looks awfully like “the silence before the storm” and it looks a lot like the situation in 1991, right before it broke into the war.One woman who was in an anti-war campaign in the 90s called the current situation “concerning” in the news one morning.

What would you do? How to keep one’s sanity in such a traumatic situation as a war?

Is there any way to prepare for a war?

Or am I being easily afraid and led into paranoia by the media?