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  • This is Robert he's an interesting yet strange young man. We watch as he sits alone.

  • Contemplating to himself. He's obviously troubled by something yet

  • I'm unsure if we'll ever find out what that is, but what are we really seeing here?

  • He has an interesting haircut sure where's the golden wash it doesn't tick poser

  • And he wears old black boots with way too many cracks in him

  • For work we plays piano by day for fun. He drinks with his buddies at night and sometimes to take things up a notch.

  • He'll go on a date once a week or twice a week.

  • or three times.

  • One day Robert was walking out of the local grocery store.

  • Which he tended to do every so often man's gotta eat only on this particular day something stopped him in his tracks

  • It was an envelope of cash lying on the ground

  • unsure of how to react Robert looked around for a moment then looked back

  • It was a fresh stack of bills and had a red stain on it now

  • I'd love to tell you that Robert left the cash where it was or even turned it in to the police.

  • But he didn't he simply dropped his groceries picked up the envelope and walked away.

  • In fact he was so infatuated with his new discovery that he left his groceries behind.

  • Which unfortunately for him were stolen soon after he didn't feel good about what he'd just done

  • But he didn't feel bad about it either to Robert

  • Fate had specifically placed the money there for a reason

  • And it was better off his than anyone else's so he continued his day

  • He went to work looking over both of his shoulders as he did so

  • then he

  • Unapologetically spending his new cash on expensive bottles

  • Expensive treatment and expensive friends he cheers everyone around him taking one shot.

  • Then another shot, then another shot after that.

  • Finally he checked his phone and received an enticing invitation from a lady friend. He pounded one more shot, and he left.

  • He drank more than he had in quite some time and stupidly Robert proceeded to get into his car.

  • He looked for the right key fumbled a bit then he got in he figured. He could manage a quick drive

  • I mean come on. He was Robert. This was his lucky day

  • Robert became easily distracted it ended up losing complete control of the vehicle and our boy Robert hit someone

  • Let's talk about Haley

  • She's young

  • Peculiar wears dark clothing and spends her time and obscure parts of town like this subway for instance

  • She's unpredictable and definitely lives by her own rules

  • She wears low-key punk rock boots has straight hair and always wears long coats

  • I mean always but most interestingly she has eyes that sometimes change color

  • And although she has a kind face and a unique style don't be fooled Haley claims to suffer from kleptomania

  • for those who don't know cup tomania is an impulse control disorder that results in an irresistible urge to steal and

  • That's exactly what Haley does

  • Haley doesn't have many friends

  • Nor does she really want any

  • At least that's what she tells herself

  • One day Haley managed to steal a watch a hairbrush earrings and a strawberry smoothie

  • Soon after as she sipped on her stolen smoothie Haley was feeling good about her successful robberies there was just another regular day

  • That is until she noticed something very odd

  • It was a man running with a bag of fresh cash and no one was chasing him the thievery had company after all

  • Impulsively she called the police

  • That's right a girl who had just broken various laws herself just called the cops on this man

  • Was she a changed person

  • Was she just protecting herself?

  • Well a few moments later. She came across two bags of groceries sitting on the ground as it turns out Haley hadn't changed at all

  • She completed her day by texting a fellow who she knew would respond right away

  • Two words were capable of captivating the young man's attention completely

  • Come over. That was her message

  • This is it. This is her life

  • Let's move on to Anthony

  • Anthony is a criminal being a criminal what he knows it's what he thinks about and it's what he does

  • Anytime he's tried to live life according to good morals. He's failed miserably

  • - Anthony there's only one thing you can do when something is wrong, and that's to do something. That's even more wrong.

  • Anthony would spend many of his nights finding ways to define the wall

  • Although he was never very lucky.

  • He would get caught almost as often as he would commit crimes and this time it cost him a year in prison.

  • After the long 12 months he was finally released and returned home to his wife

  • Although he was glad to be back in his element the world that he knew had changed a bit

  • Particularly his wife had changed, but he chose to ignore it

  • One day as he was preparing himself a slice of pizza Anthony noticed something peeking out from under the microwave it was a letter

  • He opened it only to find overdue balances his wife who he loved

  • was in debt

  • He didn't want to commit another crime

  • But he needed to get his wife out of the hole so Anthony did what Anthony knows how to do best?

  • He robbed a bank.

  • All seem to be going well until suddenly an officer stopped him in his tracks.

  • Causing a stack of cash to drop on the ground and that was it for Anthony.

  • What about Brenda this young woman thrives on her independence yet? Just sad eyes an addictive personality

  • that feels trapped in a world that only she understands she

  • Serves coffee by day

  • Works as a hostess by night and spends the rest of her day watching time go by as she waits for her husband to be

  • released from prison

  • Eventually Brenda did find herself a distraction. It was online gambling she quickly became obsessed

  • One day as she was washing a few dishes Brenda received the call that her husband was coming home

  • Initially Brenda was thrilled to see her husband again

  • the world

  • Eventually however she grew uneasy things were different

  • a few days later a large bill came in the mail

  • Has to be expected Brenda's gambling addiction has quickly eaten into her savings it had finally happened

  • Brenda was in debt

  • She decided to hide the letter so her husband wouldn't see brenda. Then grabbed her coat her keys and left

  • She walked around the city streets all day with no motive or destination

  • Things were supposed to be perfect again

  • But instead she was in debt

  • She didn't know what she was gonna do

  • Lost in her thoughts Brenda got into her car that night and before she could even buckle up

  • Brenda got hit.

  • So what does all this mean?

  • Let's recap had Brenda not been addicted to gambling.

  • She wouldn't have been in debt had she not been in debt Anthony wouldn't have been motivated to rob a bank

  • Had Anthony not robbed a bank Hayley wouldn't have called the police had Hayley not called the police Anthony wouldn't have dropped the cash

  • Anthony not dropped the cash.

  • Robert never would have found it had Robert never found it.

  • He would have never had a reason to celebrate and get drunk. Had he never driven drunk the accident would have never happened

  • I think what I'm trying to say is

  • We are all inevitably connected in some way

  • Every single one of us all over the world what one person does affects another

  • like dominoes.

  • One of us Falls.

  • And the other follows.

  • And this keeps going and going and going...

  • until we've all fallen...

This is Robert he's an interesting yet strange young man. We watch as he sits alone.

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