It was just like another normal boring day. There was snow collecting the driveway, the incessant sounds of the neighbors fighting was there as always. In all ways it was as normal as every day had ever been in my boring life. For some reason though I had a sudden urge to review my life up to this point. In all ways I was mediocre though that was due to myself. Went through school like all, Not excelling but also not failing. I never particularly had any high ambitions in life. All I ever did was the bare minimum required. It was all I ever had the motivation to do. Does not sound like much does it? My parents had the same opinion though I did not care at the time. All my life I had been told that I was full of potential but I never capitalized on it. Eventually it led to my current position in life. I was working for a large faceless corporation and living off a salary that was modest and best and downright illegal at worst. I would always wonder, what would have happened have I had paid better attention in classes in my teenage? What if I had tried to become better? What would have happened if I never had the laziness that ruined my life? Guess I could never though. Why was I suddenly having these thoughts? “Another item in the long list of things I would never know” I though to myself sarcastically. This had been my life for over 7 years at this point. Now it was becoming a new normal for me.

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   I took a look around the garbage dump I called “home”. This was no time to review my life though, I was getting late for my job. I went outside and walked to the subway. It seems like today there is a huge crowd, well what a wonderful morning it has been.

It was currently afternoon and I was eating lunch at a local diner when I heard a lot of commotion coming from outside. As I got up to look what the ruckus was about, I was shocked to see a truck barreling towards me in speeds very unsafe. M first thought was to jump out the way. But I could not do that. It felt like a strange compulsive force was holding me down. I had always wondered why people didn’t just jump out of the way of trucks coming towards them, well I certainly understood it now. Was this really it? Was this really how I die? I really, I could climb out of this dump and build me better life. Well at least this would be the end. No more worrying, No more stress. No more worrying about deadlines I can’t maintain or clients that I cannot appease. I could finally just relax. And then came the thud.