In all this chaos

“I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives.
Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters,
money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love,
getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting
bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and
getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were
dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and
it was the thing that really mattered.”