Four billion people on this earthbut my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faceswhile all the rest go by, never coming to mind and never really missed.

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When you look at your life, it’s hard to believe there are four billion people on this earth. But when you look at your imagination, which is the only thing that stays the same even as the world changes around us, you realize that you alone are special. You are different from everyone else because your imagination is still the same. With your imagination, you can see things that others can’t.

Because of your imagination, you know what it feels like to be lost in the dark, but now you know how to turn on a flashlight to illuminate random faces. Your imagination makes you feel like an individual, even though everyone else goes by and no one really thinks about you.

Source: Poems New And Collected

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