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Fucked my whole day up today. I was with a romantic partner, we got accosted at a gas station by two guys one grabbed her and had a gun to her head. I shot him and called her by the wrong name and she started crying and left. I called the cops, then my parents to let them know. Mom's best friend answered the phone and was super cheerful, which is not like her at all. I went in the gas station and bought a pack of cigarettes. Cops never came.
That reads like a movie by the bastard son of Jim Jarmusch and Woody Allen
Definitely had some coffee and cigarettes vibes.
Analysis: You are aprehensive about some negative and chaotic forces in your life that you can't control. You are worried about what you are capable of if push comes to shove. You don't want to become that person, fearful about what you will think about yourself and what other will think about you.
You are even more worried if you are forced to become a monster you loath, that others will think nothing of it. If those in your circle can accept a monster who was forced to become something terrible like it was normal, who are these people you've let into your life?
Insightful, thanks.
Complete shit, 100%.