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He tries to cling to the small moments of beauty in the world. A sunrise here; a well-cooked meal there. But it feels like wearing a heavy mask that he’s only putting on for himself now, and the question keeps occurring to him. Why make the effort?
What would the world be like without you? Not so very different,
thought. We slow down a little. We loosen our knots. We learn to find pleasure in the smaller, softer moments.
People can hide things away from you in the spaces between seconds, never mind weeks and months.
“I go for a cigarette break every hour,” Darren Field (19) told police. “I watched them arrive, and I watched them leave.”
The idea that our lives are all separate journeys, and that we just intersect occasionally in places a step aside from them, before carrying on again in our different directions.
