The Urban Soup (Part VI)

Remember: today someone will look down from their balcony and wonder about jumping; someone will let go and do something surreal; someone's hero will fall; someone will regain their self-respect; someone will get food poisoning; someone will lose a child; someone will find a way to make a quick buck; someone will be beaten; someone will be thrown off-balance on the streetcar; someone will read a poem that affects them like nothing has affected them before; someone will cry for the first time in living memory; someone will listen to a terrible bland on headphones, but will be unable to stop; someone's friend will become a stranger; someone's stomach will churn psychogenically; someone will knock on wood to give themselves confidence; someone will regain the faith that was lost since childhood and someone will lose the same faith in a very ugly incident; someone will get rained on; someone will lose their glasses; someone will buy a stranger a gift; someone will organize a large game of manhunt at a major landmark; someone's computer will exibit a minor malfunction that breaks the end user; someone will take a nap and will hate themselves for it; someone will hit rock bottom; someone will answer every question on Jeopardy; someone will change their distary preference; someone will mindlessly amble through the motions; someone will be taken advantage of in several ways at once; someone will get an attack of nerves; someone will dream of angels in a movie theatre; someone will acknowledge that they have a mental disorder; someone else will deny it vehemently; someone will fail to visit a lonely relative; someone will feed the flocks of pigeons in the park; someone will spend hours watching the faces as they pass; someone else will sit in a room with the blinds down and will do the same; someone will climb down a ravine into the Heart of Darkness; someone will dance in a meadow; someone will play a lousy tennis game; someone will spend a day fraternizing with half-real internet friends; someone will buy as many books as she can carry from a bargain bin; someone will polich a table; someone will give L. Ron the benefit of the doubt; someone will die surrounded by family; someone will cry at the end; someone will rasp out unfinished last words--it will be sad; and someone will clean the fruit flies from the window of the hospital room.

Consider: "What could have happened."