Scenes from a movie

Do you ever have passing moments of your own life that you feel like could be scenes from a movie? It happens to me every now and again, and I've been meaning to write about it for a while. Just last week I was sitting on the bus, cruising down Broadway towards work, and as I looked out the window it was as if about a 20 second span was not my life or my bus ride but a scene from a movie. I suppose it was just one of those moments where you just sort of step back and see your life going by, and it seems almost surreal. Nothing specific was happening, I was just looking out the window at the shops along the street. But as I looked out I felt like my perspective was that of a camera panning down the street.

So much time go by so quickly that we don't really see things for what they are. We see what goes on around us, but beyond that it just goes by. So it was nice to see it from a different perspective.