Recently, I met this man at my university who needed help finding a building. I decided to go out of my way and walk him there, and as I was walking, he started telling me about how he was looking to go into missions and I said "Oh! I'm a Christian too!" So we talked for about ten minutes about God and missions and stuff, and I told him about my pastor going to Indonesia so he asked for his Facebook and mine. I gave him both our names and went on my way. A few days later he added me and I thought nothing odd of the whole situation.
One day, I had my status set to something kind of implying that I wanted to date this guy hahaha (a friend of mine... lame!) and he randomly IMed me with something like "What's wrong?" Of course I didn't want to talk about it with a stranger, let alone someone that much older than me, so I said "Nothing". "Who's your status about?" "Someone." "Is it me?" "Uhhh no?" "Oh okay. Sorry I'm new to Facebook." So that was weird to me but it was all he said pretty much...
Then a few weeks later, he IMed me again with something about a song lyric I put up and I was busy so I didn't answer. Later, I changed it to another lyric that goes "But my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles! Wanna hold him. Maybe I'll just sing about it." He then IMed me with something like "You can hold me. And when I smile, is it beautiful?" I didn't see it until after he signed off though. And when I did, well, it bothered me a lot so I blocked him on Facebook.
It bothered me enough that I called a close friend and told him I was scared of this guy showing up on campus again and trying to find me or something. He lives in the town next to mine and my school is tiny so I felt like it was a legitimate concern. My friend told me it's really unlikely he'll do anything, and I shouldn't worry because some people just say awkward things like that. But this guy is in like his 30's... I'd be way less worried if he were my age, for some reason. Talking to my friend calmed me down a little bit, and I was at home at the time so I wasn't worried. But soon I'm going back for a month, and I'm scared to death.
I've been praying and reading scripture to try to calm me down but nothing's working. My mind's just racing and I'm freaking myself out so much. I'm sure what he said doesn't sound like a big deal, and he hasn't tried to contact me or anything or made up fake accounts or something, but it's just one of my greatest fears to have someone stalk me or go after me or whatever... It's my first year in college and I've only recently gotten over my paranoia of walking campus at night. And I guess I'm also upset that this person seemed like a nice guy and talked about how he wanted to be a missionary and talked about God and everything, and he was a creep to me on Facebook... I feel like I can't trust anyone now.
Maybe it's not a big deal at all, but it bothered me because he's so much older than me. I just need reassurance, Biblical or otherwise, that I'm safe and okay. Or some advice on how to make myself feel better.
Sorry, I feel dumb writing all this.
One day, I had my status set to something kind of implying that I wanted to date this guy hahaha (a friend of mine... lame!) and he randomly IMed me with something like "What's wrong?" Of course I didn't want to talk about it with a stranger, let alone someone that much older than me, so I said "Nothing". "Who's your status about?" "Someone." "Is it me?" "Uhhh no?" "Oh okay. Sorry I'm new to Facebook." So that was weird to me but it was all he said pretty much...
Then a few weeks later, he IMed me again with something about a song lyric I put up and I was busy so I didn't answer. Later, I changed it to another lyric that goes "But my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles! Wanna hold him. Maybe I'll just sing about it." He then IMed me with something like "You can hold me. And when I smile, is it beautiful?" I didn't see it until after he signed off though. And when I did, well, it bothered me a lot so I blocked him on Facebook.
It bothered me enough that I called a close friend and told him I was scared of this guy showing up on campus again and trying to find me or something. He lives in the town next to mine and my school is tiny so I felt like it was a legitimate concern. My friend told me it's really unlikely he'll do anything, and I shouldn't worry because some people just say awkward things like that. But this guy is in like his 30's... I'd be way less worried if he were my age, for some reason. Talking to my friend calmed me down a little bit, and I was at home at the time so I wasn't worried. But soon I'm going back for a month, and I'm scared to death.
I've been praying and reading scripture to try to calm me down but nothing's working. My mind's just racing and I'm freaking myself out so much. I'm sure what he said doesn't sound like a big deal, and he hasn't tried to contact me or anything or made up fake accounts or something, but it's just one of my greatest fears to have someone stalk me or go after me or whatever... It's my first year in college and I've only recently gotten over my paranoia of walking campus at night. And I guess I'm also upset that this person seemed like a nice guy and talked about how he wanted to be a missionary and talked about God and everything, and he was a creep to me on Facebook... I feel like I can't trust anyone now.
Maybe it's not a big deal at all, but it bothered me because he's so much older than me. I just need reassurance, Biblical or otherwise, that I'm safe and okay. Or some advice on how to make myself feel better.
Sorry, I feel dumb writing all this.
