Things almost fell apart🤧

Hey guys! Happy New Month! March!!!! March please be kind because that drama in February was unnecessary🤧😭😭

I hope you all had a great month last month. I definitely didn't🫠 but in all we give thanks to God innit?

The month was going quite well until that one morning on my way to work, I was robbed. Yup! Guns and shit

This thing felt like a movie ok. I am still traumatised from the experience.

Regular morning in Johannesburg traffic and the traffic light is closed. I remember vividly I was listening to a podcast "IsaidWhatISaid". Laughing at some jokes made by the presenters. Little did I know I would be staring in a movie just a few seconds later🤣

This unknown armed man walks up to my window pulling at the door handle. I am startled 😱 like "wtf mr". I hear the same sound from the back door as well. Me panicking now. I can't drive off. Cars in from and behind me.

No where to run to. He shows me his gun and asked for my phone. I was hesitant for a bit looking around like "guys can't you help me" but people just minding their business. I think at this point I was just like damn this is really happening.

I opened the window a little bit and threw the phone out. He picked it up and looked at me like he was pissed I threw it. I was sure he would shot now. Few seconds later traffic light is green and I just drove as fast as I could. In a full blown panic in tear out of breath. The whole thing happened in less that 5mins but it felt like an hour!

I was a mess! I cried so much I couldn't breathe. As soon as I got to work my colleagues were shook like girl what's going on. I was just crying. I was 5mins from work when it happened. So I just went. They all tried to comfort me and allowed me cry it all out.

Now tears are done I started calling banks, changing details on emails and things, emailed close family to let them know I didn't have a phone. Now I was in the next emotional state, anger! The administration of all this because of a criminal. I was livid!

Then I headed to the police station to report that took so long as it was a criminal case so I had to open a case file! Imagine! Was going well till the officer started flirting! Sir! My ass just got robbed but you want to get with me? Huh? But he helped me write the statements and things cause I was in such a state.

Headed back home after that, contacted the insurance for a new phone with proof that I reported it to the police to cancel out insurance fraud I guess. So yeah, that's the long and short of that terrible ordeal.

I am grateful but still so pissed! Like I work and and mind my business why did this happen ?! A criminal was shot a week or so after that incident close to my work and I started feeling better💀💀😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣.

It was so shocking to hear so many colleagues say that they experienced something similar. I was like "what!" Why didn't anyone warn us. 😭

But hey we work in one of the roughest places in Johannesburg🫠 I guess we were expected to know.

I got counselling cause a week after even till now driving to work in the morning felt like a death sentence. I am always on edge. I remember I screamed at a guy trying to give me a pamphlet cause the movement was so unexpected I panicked so much. I am told it will take a while for me to feel better but hey baby steps!

Another trigger point I had initially was when people asked where I was cause I was not posting on my WhatsApp status. At some point I just copied and pasted the messages cause if I had to retype the incident each time it felt like I was reliving the incident.

I got my phone today so I am back to disturbing the internet 🤣

All in all I am grateful! It really could be worse cause this is South Africa! And I am a female!

I am grateful for the gift of life and ❤️‍🩹 healing.

Grateful for my family and friends for all the care and support. To the ones who also reached out. Thank you❤️

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With Lots of Love,

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