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Exchanging lifes
Derek wakes up at 6:00 am, just as every weekday just to go to work, pick up his daughter and have at night a therapy with his wife. Otherwise, Cole is alone in his dirty and disorganized apartment, waking up at 3:00 pm thinking just in what he’s going to eat, and what plans he’s going to do for the night. Derek has an important job at Wall Street, he earns a lot of money, he went to Princeton, where he was the best of the class. Cole went to Juilliard, but now he dedicates his life just to do commercials for cheap food. Derek one day decides to go to a bar at night, just to chill for a while, he had too much work during the week. He sees Cole in the other side of the bar, they were truly best friends in high school. He passes to say hi to him and check out how he was doing. They start to talk about their lives. Apparently they finished their friendship because they were totally different. After a long and deep conversation Derek was wishing Cole’s life, being drunk every day, not having a real job, being in parties every night, having all the free time of the world. And Cole was wishing Derek’s life, a stable work, a family and coming home at night to people who cared about him. None of them commented that. Derek arrived to his home, his daughter was already sleeping and his wife too. He just laid in the bed and slept. He woke up the next day remembering what his dream was about. He imagined being Cole for one day and what implied to have that kind of life, obviously at the beginning was amazing for him, but he realizes that wasn’t what he really wants for his life, and he started to appreciate all the things he has in his life. That morning he had breakfast with his daughter and wife. In the other hand Cole arrived to his apartment sat on the couch and started to think how his life would be if he had Derek’s lifestyle. He couldn’t even start to imagine that; when he was already thinking in how many beers were left in his minibar.
