When you see an old couple walking down the street, hand in hand, do you ever picture how they might’ve looked like on their first date together? How many fights and struggles they’ve endured, as well as the moments that made them last?

Do you ever wonder where that girl sitting next to you in math class might end up in 25 years? The kind of job she might enter, the kind of kids she’ll raise, if any? Would she become the first female president of the United States of America? Or would she make a fatal decision in the upcoming week to get in a car with a drunken driver?

Can you imagine what the spouse of the teacher you see at school every day, the one you despise the most, saw in the other at the marriage altar? The lives your teachers have outside of the classroom? If they had even wanted to become one in the first place? The kind of teenagers they might have been? The kind of teenagers your parents might have been? If you would have been friends with them had you been of their same generation?

How about the two kids you see on the playground, pushing each other on the swings? How long will their friendship last? What will cause it to eventually break off? Distance? Time? Drugs? Or will they both take part in the other’s wedding? End up golfing together after retirement?

Do you go through the day thinking solely about yourself? Or do you take concern in the lives of others as well? Do you realize how great the number 6.7 billion is: the number of people alive and breathing in this world at this exact minute? And how many individuals you won’t even know about at the time of your death? Some that might have been potential best friends, spouses, or mentors, had you not been so self-centered to even say hello?

What do you think about during the day?