Take some advice from Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS, Always trust your gut. If something is setting off warning bells in your head, pay attention. Listen! I don’t care if you call it instincts, a guardian angel or what, take heed to the warning. There have been several times I paid attention, and it saved my life. There have been a few times I ignored it, and I seriously regretted it.
There was a time in Miami, I had my sister and my little niece in the car with me. We were headed to the mall. I was almost at the mall entrance, and something made me ask my sister if she wanted to go look at some Avon. So we drove to a friend’s house instead. I found out later that evening that there had been a shoot out at the mall, and right in the area we would have been at.
Once I had my mom with me, and I was turning off a side street to get on the highway. I usually got in the left lane right away because I was headed home. For some reason that day, I stayed in the right lane. Thank God I did, because there was a car going south in the north bound lanes. I would have hit him head on if I had been in the left lane.
In Dover, I was at a red light waiting to cross the highway to go home. The light turned green. I didn’t see anyone but something told me to wait a second. Once again, that something saved my life. If I had moved when the light changed, I would have been in the intersection just as a woman in a huge SUV came barreling through the red light. She would have run right over my little Metro, and killed me.
I was once at a church, and this man sat next to me. I didn’t know him, and had never seen him before. But he felt evil to me. My entire body was screaming with the urge to run. I don’t know why. He could have been the nicest man in the world, but my instincts were telling me otherwise.
One of the times I ignored that warning bell in my head, I almost got raped. I should have never entered a locked building with someone else who held the key. As it was, I was sexually assaulted, and that was horrible enough.
I have been called too trusting before, and I probably am. But I do try to pay attention to the feelings I have about people, and situations. If someone or something makes you uneasy, don’t worry about being polite or not, just get out. You can worry about upset feelings later. If a person makes you uncomfortable, get away from them. If someone pressures you into doing something you don’t feel right about, say no and walk away.
Listen to your gut, your instincts, your common sense or whatever you want to call. Don’t let the fear of being rude effect how you trust your own self. You really can save yourself sometimes.
Bellaelena 