Midnight Reflections: Fear, Safety, and Peace

It's 12:48 am over here and I can't sleep. A lot is going through my mind. After listening to all the bad news flying around here, my heart is troubled. It seems as though we are moving from one tragedy to another, a never-sending circle, if I must say.

It's crazy how horrible scenes from movies I’ve watched countless times could become the reality of people in real life. Not in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined that this could happen to people, not just to people far away from me but people in my own country.

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The more I watched these videos, the more terrified I was. I am just a viewer and I feel sick to my stomach; how much more do the people present in the video? How did they feel? How can they move on with their lives after this horrible incident? Will their lives remain the same?

I am worried sick because it can happen to anyone. You can be seated in your house and such a tragedy can befall you. Your family or loved ones can be affected, no one is truly free from this.
What is the way forward? How long shall we continue to live in fear?

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I think this tragedy hits home for me because I was supposed to move to the said state for a project. The more I think about it, the more I get scared. How would I have been able to live in such an environment after such an ugly incident? How would I have been able to cope? Thoughts of this haunt me and sleep eludes me.

Bad things happen to people every day, and the scary part about this is that there’s no inscription on your head that says "Spare her, she just got robbed" or “Spare her she just got kidnapped,” nothing that shields or excludes you from the next tragedy that is about to happen, nothing at all.

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I wish the world could be a better place, a place free from chaos, pain, and suffering. I wish we could live in a world where we don't have to look over our shoulders every now and then. I wish we could live in a world where everyone co-exists peacefully but then again, these are mere wishes right? And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride right?

I don't know the state of these people right now, but I pray God heals them physically and mentally, and grants them peace. If you're reading this, please be safe out there, you are very important, and your life is more precious than you think.

_{All images are mine except otherwise stated.}

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