STORYTIME | From Fear to Reflection: My Late-Night Encounter

 

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You know what time it is? It’s story time. Hey, I said it story time. Alright, so this story that I wanna tell you came to mind because last week, so I moved to a new office. Remember earlier I showed you all the view from my office, right? The view from my office. Remember we talked about that a little earlier?

Beautiful office, beautiful apartment, beautiful area. It’s wonderful. But I got home late one night last week, I think I got home maybe around 10 30 or 11:00 PM It was dark outside. It was very calm and serene, right? So I got out of my car and I have an automatic lock, so I just hit the button and it locks my car on my key.

So I hit the button. It went, do, do. So I stepped outta my car again, locked it, do do. And I was about to walk on the sidewalk toward my apartment. When all of a sudden I heard footsteps behind me. Now remember, it was late at night, it was dark, it was very calm, but all of a sudden I heard footsteps behind me.

Now. Immediately I thought that someone was following me. So I turned around quickly and there was a man standing there, he had a hood on, and he was walking towards me and I looked at him and he said, Hey, how are you? I said, dude, you can’t just walk up on me like that. It was actually my neighbor. He said, oh, I’m sorry.

And I think he was cold, so he was walking kind of quickly and he was kind of leaned over like this. And I thought about, man, if I had been in South Korea, it would’ve been totally different. You see, I was scared at that moment because I thought someone was coming to attack me. But when I lived in South Korea, again, this situation reminded me of South Korea.

Because living in South Korea, even at midnight, as a single female living alone, I could go outside at midnight, walk to a park by myself where it was dark. They had a few lights there, and I could walk and not worry about anyone attacking me. That’s how safe Korea was. And the situation that happened last week reminded me of how much I missed Korea and walking around at night without worrying about anyone attacking me.

Now, my neighbor’s great. He didn’t do anything of course, but that fear that someone may have been walking up upon me. That fear went away when I was in South Korea. It’s a very safe country. Maybe your country is just like Korea, very safe, or maybe your country is similar to more of a dangerous company, company, country.

But I’m glad everything worked out, of course. And my neighbor, he is a cool guy, but it reminded me that sometimes you can be in an area that’s safe and sometimes you can be in an area that’s not safe. Alright guys. I hope you enjoyed this short story today. Have an awesome week and I will see you all next time.


 

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