A Shot in the Night

 

People are always saying that almost everything that I write has a murky tone to it. I tend to agree, but it is based on what I see, hear, or get to know about, and I can´t help it if the facts are gloomy.

Around 3:00 AM last night (I always check what time it is when wake up in the middle of the night), I was awakened by a group of people yelling nearby. I could not make out whether it was coming from my building or from the houses nearby. Apparently, the yelling was because someone was throwing a party where there was deafening music, rowdy voices, laughing - we all know how loud sounds can get at 3:00 AM.

Apparently, somebody who was not at the party, was unkindly asking the neighbors to stop the party. A few of his arguments (yes, it was a strong masculine voice) were that people needed to rest and there should not be a party anyways due to the pandemic that is going on and that those people were irresponsible for not caring about their own lives nor the lives of other people. As I was lying in bed and listening to all this, I was nodding my head in agreement.

I guess it was the host of the party who sounded intoxicated because his choice of words to answer back at this man was not the most pleasant to hear at 3:00 AM, so I will just stick to “mind your own business go back to sleep old man etc. etc”.

Then you could hear a woman's voice saying “please be calm let's talk about this reasonably. We will turn down the music people are starting to leave. It will end soon”.

As if a magic wand had done its trick, the noises stopped when the man who had been awakened by the festivities shot in the air. Literally he used his gun and shot in the air which meant that he was not kidding; he needed his beauty sleep.

While I was paying attention to all this racket, I just prayed that that bullet did not find anybody to hurt. So, you see, it is not my stories that are dark. It is the world around me. People have lost respect for others. People have lost respect for themselves. People are very much egocentric nowadays. The stories tend to be bleak.

written: May 2, 2021

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