Scene: Jacksonville Beach, approximately one block from the ocean, sometime in May 2014.
Players: 2 guys and 1 girl riding bikes together.
Girl: I love biking down this back-road, the flowers smell so pretty this time of year.
Guy 1: (In a mocking tone typically reserved for "yo mama" jokes) You're a back-road.
Girl: Shut-up!
I had a nice chuckle, then they passed by me and I'll never see them again. All I will ever know about them is that 5 second conversation I overheard that day. It then occurred to me that our lives are filled with interactions like this. People that, for all intents and purposes, only exist for 5 seconds or so and exist no more. Hence: 5-second lives.
I thought that there needed to be a place where those interactions were captured and not lost to oblivion. So, that's it. Feel free to share any stories you have. I'll be happy to pass them along. Hopefully this can grow into a fun little community that shares smiles with one another. The world needs more of that.
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