10 Things I Can't look away from
You know how we're supposed to be all cool and not stare at things: like celebrities or car accidents, etc? Well, I am uncool. Here are some things I just can't look away from.
1. Celebrities.
And then as he was leaving the elevator he turns, comes back to me and gives me a hug and says, "It's all going to be ok."
2. A couple arguing in public with at least one person crying.
I used to do a project at HBO called “3am.” What people are up to at 3 in the morning in NYC.
If I saw a couple arguing I would always interview them. What are you arguing about? I am still obsessed, 20 years later, with the reasons couples argue.
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3. Death
I was scared I was going to lose my new job. I wasn't even remotely quaiified for it. And I was dressed in a cheap suit. And I was living with my parents.
Thousands of us poured out of the bus station and were walking to work.
The woman walking next to me was about three feet to my right.
A cab ran up the curb, hit her, and then drove off with a screech as fast as possible.
The woman three feet from me, was dead. If I had been more polite, I would have walked on the side with the curb. I didn’t know polite walking behavior then.
I ran to a payphone (!) and called 911 but so did several other people and soon an ambulance was there.
She was broken in half. The skin was still together but blood was everywhere and you could see that her body was no longer put together.
I couldn’t stop staring. I was late for work that day.
4. Someone looking at me
Sometimes I see people looking at me. I wonder why.
I always look back at them. If they are still looking at me, I look away. But then I try to sneak a look again.
This happened to me yesterday morning.
5. Heavy heavy plastic surgery
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6. If I see two people having sex across the street in their apartment.
7. My daughters interacting with each other.
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8. And sometimes you see things and you just wonder: what was the story?
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9. An eclipse
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10. The real world
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