What I fear the most.

What I fear the most?

     Is the one sentence text saying “Help I’m scared”. There are numerous ways that one text can be interpreted. The worst part is that there is no way of contacting that person either. No matter how many calls are sent to that phone. No number of texts or calls will ever make that person reply. The only things that run through your mind at first are “Oh maybe they are getting their phone now and just replying late”. Then the seconds go by and your pulse starts to rise and you start to ask yourself “hmm what is taking them so long”. The minutes go by and you still haven’t received a text and you go “God I hope nothing happened” more minutes past by and you start to go into denial “Maybe they fell asleep, or they dropped their phone… etc”. Then right as you look at your phone again it has only been 10 minutes before your last text and you are worried out of your mind. The only thing you can do is sit there and pray that they are alright and hope they reply soon. Realistically you can take the time and drive all the way to the last known location of that person and look if they are ok or just sit and wait. Most people decide to wait, but very few actually go and check.

     The funny thing is, all of this happens in a small span of 10 minutes, which people think “ohh that’s not very long” but it is. The average person can bleed out in as much as 5 minutes if they have a severe enough injury. A man can grab a woman and it would only take a matter of seconds to do so, with an added four minutes to get her somewhere secluded so he can finish the deed. A man can rob someone in less than thirty seconds and kill them in three. The thing is, the world is not really a safe place. I’m not trying to sound like some paranoid freak, but someone saying that people should show a little more concern when something as serious as this ever arises. At least be concerned, whether or not their friend is ok, because if they aren’t and you did nothing. You will never be able to forgive yourself.  Because it takes a life time to build up your life as you want, but only mere seconds to break it apart and leave nothing but ugly cracks.