the lost dot

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That is exactly how long it takes to read those 4 digits : four seconds.

Short they might seem but…they are not only just any normal “seconds” .. they are the “four seconds”

Three was just way too short .. and five was the space after the fullstop.. the new line.. the new story and maybe .. the new life..

It is the 4 seconds that count..

Those are the four seconds you’ve waited for for several years..  just to hear that word.. or see that person .. or live that moment..

Those are the four seconds you’ve dreaded for so long…you’ve never wished for them to occur and yet when they did… they seemed to have made you grow 40 years older in just 4 seconds..

The most painful four seconds … the most longest four seconds.. the most beautiful , loving, frightful .. name it.. just add any adjective before it..

it’ll still be 1…2…3…4 seconds of your life…

To those who’ve cherished these four seconds..every one of them.. lived and loved them…

To those four seconds that are engraved in our hearts.. not only memories..

And to those who suffered.. who were hurt.. who wished if those seconds were only two..

To those four seconds that killed us.. shattered whatever we had of life left in our soul…

To those four seconds you’d never forget that look…

That smell..

that person..

That moment..

That incident..

Life moved on…

We all have our own four seconds.. ones that stretch to cover every young orphan and make them warm for the next many years of their life..

And we also have those dreadful four seconds that are just thorns in our memory .. in our heart.. yet to heal..

In four seconds.. we changed our direction… we took the road less taken..

in four seconds.. we flipped the coin.. to the undesired side of it.. and lost the bet.. of our life..

In four seconds.. we lost control.. and life was no longer a life .. just a living space..

Four seconds… a matter of life and death..

كلامك عذب دايم حدثيني .. ولو في كل يوم أربع ثواني

This post is dedicated to all of those who lived those four seconds.. to the Angel and demons of our lives..Kings and Queens.. and even to you .. the same old clown .. even a clown has his own four seconds..

May your next four seconds in the many following years be one of those you’d cherish for the rest of your lives..

Few Facts:

It found 75% of the 1,058 people asked would not return to websites that took longer than four seconds to load

You should keep a distance of 4 seconds between cars on a wet road

Four seconds are essential for joggers and runners

Astronauts are trained to take quick decisions in 4 seconds: 4 seconds method for better communication