I'm A VERY Scary Person

When you move into the city, you should have a pretty good idea that you'll be seeing all sorts of peculiar people around every corner. And, I'll be the first to assure each of you that this is a true fact. There's the lady with bright blue hair over yonder, just yesterday I saw a man with every face piercing imaginable, and tomorrow, I fully expect to run into the oddly shaped lady who is just SURE she has conversations with my dog. 

Why, just the other day, I pulled up to my home after work and saw a middle aged man sitting against the tree along the street writing in what appeared to be his journal. He seemed like a wonderer with his Bermuda shorts, flip flops, shaggy hair, and his bicycle propped next to him. I gave him a friendly nod, and continued into my home. THEN my mind turned to a very dark place, full of danger. "What if this man was a murderer? Why did he choose THAT tree to lean against? GASP! Now he knows where I live! I hope I didn't seem too innocent. I should have seemed tougher. I should've seemed gross and mean! Oh, man, oh man... This is it. He's going to kill me for sure." 

These thoughts were creating an unnecessary anxiety in me. My crazy imagination may as well have been real life, as that's how I was feeling. Scared out of my mind!

Then it hit me. Who was I to judge another? For all I know this man was now thinking, "Oh crap! That girl knows what my bike looks like. Did you see how she looked at me?! She's for sure going to follow me home and kill me. What a crazy look about her!" 

We all write stories in our mind about the people we associate with on a daily basis, and especially strangers. The kicker is that we get to decide if we write scary stories, or not. I'd say that 90% of the time we write just that, when in reality, we are just a bunch of misfit kids trying to fit in. 

I could spend my days worrying about every single person I run into on the streets, and every single scenario that i've seen in the movies, OR, I could just remember that I'm JUST as scary as everyone I see... and, hey, we all know I wouldn't hurt a fly.