I live in a community that is really safe for us women. I grew up here, and now attending university here as well. Today, I was on a walk with my friend and we both decided to just go outside the building and go around it, as opposed to the parking. We both were just talking about something, when two men crossed our paths. One smoking and looking straight ahead and not at anyone, and another guy who was with him, with his hands in his pocket. He just looked at me in some sort of way that rubbed off very wrongly. I just felt this pang of fear stab me in my stomach.
I normally never get intimidated by eye contact, but this just created some sort of fear in my gut, to the extent that I felt breathless and started having palpitations. I hope this doesn’t sound dramatic. I just felt so exposed. I hate it 😔