At work today, a few minutes to noon, several hundred people in my building filed outside and stood on the pavement. Shopkeepers, pedestrians, cyclists all came to a standstill out in the sun.

At twelve, a church bell tolled. Traffic halted. There was no speaking, no horns. It really was silent. Eveything stopped, and life was momentarily put on pause.

Two minutes is a long time when you’re really being observant. When you’re observing. Two minutes must seem a lifetime when you think you’re going to die.

When a crisis happens, and everything is chaos, people are dying, and you’re scared with no idea what the hell is going on as the world seems to be crumbling around you…it feels like life should just stop.

And today at noon, it did.

photo from guardian.co.uk

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