Ba-thump…

Just a single second, just a single heartbeat…the world, all its torments, all its frivolities…all is forgotten. A halt is placed on the earth's rotation, and all those who walk it's surface…freeze. An enveloping blackness takes over…and all ceases to matter.

In that single moment of greatness, the human brain is at its finest. With the distracting emotions and worries gone, the analytical coldness shines through with an unparalleled, pulsing intensity. Love and hate, peace and war, gain and loss…all layers are stripped away, leaving but the bare core of human existence. Life and death are all that remain. The choice, the power, the ability of such an essential balance…all left in the steady hands of one man. It is a responsibility akin to divinity. It is the true act of 'playing god'…a phrase too casually thrown around by those who've never actually done it.

The blood, the tissue, the risk, the approaching brink of death, and amongst it all…a single heartbeat.

Ba-thump…