7AM: Alarm goes off. Wake up, yawn. Sit up. Get out of bed. Brush teeth, shower, get dressed. Breakfast. Off I go.
12PM: Lunch. Chicken breast sandwich. Chit chat with co-workers. Drink coffee.
12:30: Back to work.
5:30PM: Home. Dinner. TV. Reading. A walk on the treadmill.
9PM: Brush teeth, shower, get in pajamas. Bed.
Howard reviews his day in his head as he climbs into bed. Just a normal day, just like any other day, just like every day of the past fifteen years. An overwhelming sadness comes over him as he turns the light off; he doesn’t know why, where it comes from, he has never felt it before. He feels the tears creeping down the sides of his face as he lays his head on the pillow. He tells himself “tomorrow is a new day.” But he knows that it is not, it is just another layer of his useless temporary eternity.
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