Abandoned

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams 
of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

~ Emile Durkheim

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I wonder when I see abandoned houses or barns or storefronts or storebacks, why did someone just leave them?  Were they called away?  Was it illness or emergency?  Was it just giving up and  moving on when a dream didn't play out the way someone had hoped?

I also wonder when I see abandoned buildings if there might be treasure in them or big giant hidden bags of money.  But I hardly ever find those things there.