A/N: Loosely based off Psalm 39. Again, I used the NIV.

Life is a fleeting thing.

It is there... And then it is gone.

We barely notice its leaving. We are too wrapped up in ourselves. Our own lives.

Too busy to notice a small light flicker out.

We all go around as phantoms, rushing to heap up wealth, without knowing whose it will finally be¹.

Do you ever look out through the window and wonder? Wonder about all those people, hurrying to get somewhere?

Do you ever stop and think?

Maybe you'll fall in love with one. Maybe one will become your best friend in the whole world. Maybe one will save your life. Maybe you'll give yours so they can continue living.

Or maybe they will pass out of your life, to be forgotten, discarded.

Just another stranger passing by. To eventually flicker and die, extinguished by the coldness of death.

¹Psalm 39:6