Reminiscent Room

This picture just brings about a sad notion for me. It reminds me of a waiting room. Not really of a hospital, but just that mental waiting room where we hear bad news but hope and pray and wait for it to be cruel joke or just somehow untrue. I remember when my best friend died, when I found out one of my close friends had been abused, when some people I know were diagnosed with cancer... I remember wishing it were all a lie and that things could just go back to the easy comfortable life I was, just five seconds ago, used to. But life can never go back. Only forward. Sometimes I hate that so much. This picture makes me want to go back to a certain time, over a decade ago, and just restart from there. Things could be so different.