Restful you were walking along the street, staring to the ground. The streets were so crowded that with every step you took you bumped into someone. But although there were so many people around you, you had never felt this lonely before in your entire life. If you exhaled a small white cloud formed in front of your eyes, caused by the freezing temperatures which were very typical for the time of the year. 

A man walked up against your shoulder, not that hard, but hard enough that you had to back off a little. The man bowed his head just enough for you to be able to see it before he walked further to his destination. You sighed before you started walking again. You were watching your feet and made sure that you calmly put one step after another, without looking up to the many people around you. 

When you came at a crosswalk your eyes snapped up. This was the place, the place you hated, the place you detested. Everyone was busy with something. Two women on the other side were having a cozy conversation with each other. The man next to you was calling with his secretary and told her to shut against his wife or that otherwise he would ruin her life. The woman next to him was yelling at her child because he didn't want to sit still in the pram. And one guy was texting with a person in hopes that they could become more then just friends. 

Everyone was doing something, had somebody to talk to or to share their feelings with. Everybody had someone at home who was waiting for them, someone who took care for them. Everyone had someone to share their life with, someone they were willing to fight for. At least everybody except for you.

It was this place, this place where it had taken it all away from you. This place made your life lonely and sad, almost unliveable. These stripes took the most valuable thing you had away from you, and didn't want to give you something in return. You didn't want anything though. The only thing you wanted was to get back what you had lost once before. But it didn't, it would never come back to you, no matter how much you wanted it. And every time you came here, it seemed like these stripes were just laughing at you, even though you were standing right here.

When the traffic light jumped on green the crowd ran to the other side, all at the same time. they were moving as fast as possible so