In the time of War!

I don't know. I don't know where to start, what to write about. There are too many things going on right now. Let me tackle them one at a time. 

It all started with the war. I was at work, seeing a patient and a warning sounded on my phone. I assumed(hoped) it was another one of those test messages and continued seeing my patient. 

Then my phone rang. I completed my examination and saw that my wife was calling. I advised the patient and called my wife back after having seen the alert(it was not a test message). There was a hint of panic in her voice as we discussed the alarm on the phone. 

I asked her to collect our son(he was playing in his friend's house on a lower floor - it was a Saturday morning) and go to the groundfloor. As we were speaking, she said, “They've bombed, they are attacking.”

The panic also travelled through the phone but I did not want to show it yet. I repeated my words and asked her to collect our son and head to the groundfloor. 

I excused myself from my workplace and got into my car, my hands shaking. Most people did not know yet that we were hit. The closer I got home, the thicker the black cloud of smoke appeared above the damaged site. I drove on through the traffic jam; my wife calling me to say that the traffic near our house was stand still, the vehicles were not even moving. 

She was with our son's friend's parents and they were just driving away from the area. Some of their friends were headed to a mall not very far away and we decided to meet there. I got there first and parked in a ground where everyone else seemed to be parking(probably a bad idea). I went to the mall and it was mostly deserted. 

We kept hearing multiple explosions all through my drive and when I was close to the mall, the windows on the buildings rattled as well. The explosions sounded as if they were happening right above us and I could hear the fear in my wife's voice everytime there was a sound. 

I tried moving into the interior most part of the mall, away from any windows or doors, as we had been advised. I finally got a call when I was pacing around an empty spot. My wife, child and their friends had arrived. 

They parked in the same ground I had parked. I almost ran to them and saw they were all clearly rattled. We headed to the basement parking area of the mall(which is what I should have done) where the other family's friends were gathered.

Let me take a break here. 

I don't know if this is too boring to read or if anyone will even read it but at this point, this blog has existed for most of my writing life and it has become more of a record of my life events. So, even if no one reads this, it is good to write all of this somewhere where I can come back and read all of this(hopefully) at a later time. 

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