Trust the Process: Shooting at my Apartment Complex

So yesterday, there was a shooting at my apartment complex...not only that, but my car took a bullet, as well as was covered in blood.
I was planning to leave my place around 3pm, because I was thinking about reading for a while at a coffee shop before a yoga class. At about 2:30, I decided I'd just stay home and watch a movie on netflix, and then head to class after. At around 3pm, I heard two shots outside, but I thought they were just from people playing with fireworks, because people do that a lot around here. I got all my things together and left the apartment around 4:15, to find my car:

I called the apartment complex, thinking it was painball at first, but then I saw the bullets on the ground, and smelled the blood...puddles around my car. While on the phone, I heard the police sirens getting closer, so I guess someone else had already called the cops. They arrived, and then when I realized it was serious and was really blood, I about flipped out. I thought I might throw up. Supposedly two people got into a fight, and I guess people don't fight with bare hands anymore, and use guns, unfortnately. Today I found out that someone was taken into custody and a victim has been hospitalized. I am unsure whether it was a car jacking or just a violent fight between two people who knew each other. All I know is that for the first time in my life, I feel unsafe in this area.

My realization was that, if I had left when I had originally planned, I could have easily been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and could have been shot myself, but thank God I stayed home a little longer. My friend parker joked, "OR, you could have gotten your car out of there before the damage was done"...true...

Anyway, they blocked off the entire parking lot, and there were many cops, fire dept. came, and investigators came. They finally let me go inside, because it was freezing cold out there. This morning, I found the huge hole which the bullet went through and fell out of my car when I opened the passenger door. I put the bullet in a baggie and took it to the front office where I also filed my own report. We will see what happens next.

This whole thing really puts a lot of things in perspective for me. It's interesting how we hear about all of these shootings around the world, but we sometimes think, "That would never happen to me/someone I love" but honestly, anything can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time. This teaches me to be more discerning of people, more on guard, and more aware of my surroundings. I do feel that guns should be more heavily regulated, because of the harm that they are causing in our world.

Today, I am feeling very blessed to be alive, well, and that my loved ones are alive and well. We just never know when our time will run out.

Happy New Year

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