Sometimes you have to Trust your Instincts.

On the 27th of April 2022, Early I’m the morning.

I prepared myself for the long day I was about to face.

How I knew it was going to be a long, I had this weird feeling when I woke up that I shouldn’t use similar road I always take when going to my Netball practice.

Me not minding what my instincts tell me, I used the same road.

I took a taxi from my place and got off along the way before it reaches Town, that’s where I usually get off every day.

I was walking slowly minding my own business.
 

Admiring nature, listening to the sound of birds and breathing the fresh morning air. Seeing people go up and down the road rushing to work, others taking their morning jogs. I didn’t know morning can be so admirable.

Some guy from nowhere came walking behind me. Pretending to walk the same direction as me and I didn’t even bother about him cause there are people going the same road as we are. The weird thing about that guy is that when he reached 1-2 metres from me his phone fell down and I just looked back at him and I continued minding my own business.

After him picking up his phone, up he rushed up to me just too close distance I walked from him. Sadly he was rushing to me so he can take my phone from me, I was fortunate enough that when he said “bring that phone or else I am going to stub you to death (ketlo o hlaba oshwe tlisa phone eo)” He tried to pull off the knife from his pocket, His phone fell down again and I managed to run and ask for help.

Few people that were a little distance from us did turn and managed to chase him. I couldn’t believe I almost lost my life for a phone. I felt down all day. The flashbacks of that scene have been hitting me all day even when I was on my Freedom Day’s Netball games. I believed that day that sometimes I need to mind my instincts.