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This moment is exactly like any other moment, in terms of the physical moment itself. A single still-shot of time that never really exists; it comes and then it is passed.

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The entire planet goes through this moment, but only for one segment of the world does this moment hold any significance.

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For everyone else, this moment is just another fraction of a second that mean no more than the one after it.

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Perhaps an hour from now another part of the world will anticipate a different moment. Or maybe an hour earlier the same had happened.

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Held breaths, beating hearts, excited smiles, broken hearts, new resolves, depressed reflections  anticipations, quiet pray, loud proclamations  regret, hope, fear, love, hate, and counting, a counting of moments to this moment. 

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Why so much emotion for a single moment?

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The world doesn't shift, the stars don't realigned, hearts are the same hearts despite resolutions.

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Why this moment? Why not the one before it? Why not the one after?

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This moment means nothing. So the clocks blink a different number, and a new calendar must be put up. These are human things. 

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A moment, the moment, plugs along the same regardless.

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People kiss, people scream, people cry, people laugh, people die, people live, some for the very first time.

This moment is passed...

...and another one follows it.