All of Us Strangers

Feb 22, 2024

Using the estimate that over 56 million deaths occur annually, two people die every second. For every second that I spend writing this review, twice as many people have died. And so on and so forth.

I've seen hundreds of explorations of grief in media. I've experienced it firsthand. But I think this is what really put all of it into perspective for me. The thoughts and ideas were always there, but they never quite clicked until now.

"I think I would have improved, had I been given the time." I think I want to improve. I think if I became one of the 56 million people who died this year, I'd want to leave not wondering whether or not I could have improved if I just had more time. I want to try and connect and apologize and go into rooms where someone's been crying because it's not worth it not to.