Someone nearby will try to pass the time with music or the news. Most others will ask them to turn it off. Like me, they’ll want to wait in silence. With respect. Like at a funeral. All of us in our own private world between worlds. Time will stop. We won’t be sure it will ever start again. Have you ever seen two thousand silent people? It won’t feel real. And it will feel more real than reality. A reality we can’t escape no matter how we try.
so real
