The Office Light Made Me Feel Empty

Dear Delyara, There is something about fluorescent office light at the end of a long day that makes life feel especially strange. Everyone had gone home. I was still there finishing something I no longer even cared about. The room was too bright, the silence too artificial, the air too dry, and for a few minutes I had this awful feeling that I was watching myself live instead of actually being inside my life. I packed my bag slowly after that. On the walk home, I kept thinking: how many people are quietly lonely in places that look respectable?