Slow down. Breathe. Look around. This is Life.

Right now, somewhere in the world, she is stepping out into the early morning spring chill with a black coffee in hand, thinking about how at that exact moment, he is arriving home exhausted after a long overnight shift. Somewhere else, someone else is sitting on a train wedged among strangers, struggling to hold back tears from a break-up with a boy who, at that moment, is just finishing up an overseas phone call with his newly-married best friend. A dog is barking faintly in the distance, cut short by an ambulance screaming past, while a final flower petal drops to the ground leaving behind a naked leaf. Two people sit on a roof draped in blankets and whispers waiting for the sun to rise, while someone else across the world barely notices the swirling golden colors of the sunset as he prepares for an apology speech. Slow down, breathe, look around. You’re not the only one in existence – this world comprises of so many layers, and at any given moment, someone somewhere is experiencing life so differently from you, living the life you’ve dreamed of, or facing the nightmares you’ve been fearing, because that’s what life is – ‘a segment of something which contributes to create an infinite line made by infinite falling pieces.’

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