Or, like you can unpause, but also everyone else can also pause. You’re just going about your day, eating some soup, and someone in India is in the middle of an exam and wants to take an extra moment to think.

So you and everyone else is frozen in time while they search their recollection for some bit of trivia they are supposed to know. Your spoon, full of yummy soup, is inches from your mouth, but you can’t even smell it because the air is paused, too. Time has stopped, but not your consciousness.

Unpause, your spoon finishes its trip to your mouth. Time pauses again before you get a chance to swallow, because someone in Canada is on a date and is nervous about asking too many questions.

This is life, now. Pause, unpause, pause, unpause, nobody knowing why or when someone else will hit pause, or how long it will last.