In a quiet street of the loud city , where the shadow of massive buildings was making the night darker, a young woman walked alone after her work. The silence was heavy yet screaming aloud. She wasn’t far from home, but each step was tolling and tiring.
Suddenly, she saw a figure in the distance, moving slowly toward her. Her heart trembled. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, she thought. Once upon a time, seeing another person on a lonely road might have been a moment of relief, a chance for a shared smile or a quick greeting. But now, in this world we’ve built, fear has replaced that instinct.
As the figure came closer, her mind shouted with many possibilities—none of them good. She increased her pace of walking , clutching her keys tightly, eyes looking around for an escape route. The figure passed without incident, just another person making their way home. But the fear was constant.
This, she realized, was the saddest evolution of mankind. Not the technology or the progress, but the fact that a simple, pass-by has become a source of fear. Seeing someone on an empty road now made her feel anything but safe. This was what we had achieved over the years—a world where you feel encountering a ghost on a dark and lonely street is safer than a human being
