I'm having a hard time focusing on anything right now...
That moment where you can't even say anything because it's as if you're watching everything behind a movie screen, rather than in real life...
Sorry to hear that... it doesn't sound like you live in a very secure area, though tbh, stuff like this can happen anywhere. The other day at work (well before I got laid off), I heard cops outside, and I peeked through the window. They had pulled over somebody, but when they asked for the person to roll down the window, the person refused. He would repeat over and over for the person to roll down the window, and nothing.
Then something terrifying happened.
The cop pulled out one of those baton things and began to smash this person's car window. I was so stunned that I could only stare for a moment. When the window broke, the person stepped on the accelerator and drove off at some ungodly speed. The cops immediately followed. Found out later that it was a woman who had stolen a car - which is why she didn't roll down her window. Course, the charges she faced with the run away were far worse due to her actions.
This world is just crazy. My mom complains that people are 'too suspicious' of each other, and hence can be seemingly unfriendly, but I can't blame them sometimes.
That's pretty crazy. It's always a little bit shocking to be face to face against crime, isn't it?
The area I live in is... well it's a city, yeah, crime happens. The thing is, I dunno if you heard or read on the news or something, but Mexico was/is going through a heavy war against the drug traffikers since 2010 or so. The most unsafe areas where in the North of the country, which is where I live. It reached its peak like three years ago when you literally couldn't go out of your house without first checking if there was a shooting and at which street. As I said before, people randomly got shot on the streets, and not one night went by without the sound of gunfire in the distance. Sometimes three blocks away. There was a time in which they threw a hand grenade on a children's park. People were found executed daily, etc.
It was scary as **** at first, but slowly we all started to get desensitized to all the senselss violence. After all, when the daily news are about horrible murder, the "horrible" starts to blend in with the dairy and you begin to forget it's actually horrible.
It's gotten better, though. At least inside the cities. The highways are still No Man's Land, but since the government changed, the current political party went back to making shady and corrupt deals with the drug lords and at least there's no massive violence anymore.
I lived through all of that, and I was in the heart of it, but still. Like, even then, nothing so personal ever happened to me or any of my friends. That's why I'm so shocked right now.
Oh, by the way, girl. How's the job hunt going? I haven't asked in ages.