Five minutes. Three hundred seconds, that’s all it is. It can seem like a short amount of time or a long amount of time, depending on what’s happening. You press the snooze button and wake up five minutes later—that’s no time at all. But if you’re giving a speech at the front of the classroom with all those eyes on you, or you’re getting a cavity filled, then five minutes can feel like a long time. Or say you’re being humiliated and tortured by someone you trusted, someone you grew up with, someone you loved, even… five minutes is forever. Five minutes is the rest of your entire fucking stupid
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