In case of fire…

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“Odds are someone else has faced a similar adversity to the one you’re facing now, be it today or a thousand years ago. And if they faced it, so can you.” UNK

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In case of fire…break glass.

You’ve seen this in hotels, public buildings, library’s, etc.

It’s that little red box that you see, I see, we all see and hope we never have to actually break the glass.

But it’s there, as a reminder that if the shiite hits the fan (or Bob falls asleep with his Pall Mall still lit) we have backup. We have the cavalry. We have a fallback and we know that someone else is gonna blaze on in and put out the fire.

It gives us a sense of calm, of peace, of relaxation and on some level we know that a life can be saved simply by breaking that glass and yanking the lever.

But this is your life we’re talking about.

Right?

In real life we don’t have a mechanism that we can break open and the saviors flood in…

In real life we don’t have these double proofed safety nets…

In real life we coulda never imagined a pandemic…

In real life we don’t have a little red box…