I was watching some unknown Movie when surfing movie channels and came across this scene of a typical corporate guy, with bow ties and suit, rushing to the Terrace of the office building, panting, trying to catch his breath. For a moment, I paused and thought besides the overwhelming sense of anxiety that this scene was trying to create. I realized that this dramatic scenario actually presented a reality-check—we are all bitching about the skyscrapers but there are times when these monstrous buildings actually do something rather well. I live on the fifth floor of a residential high-rise and the windiness is still very palpable. Just imagine someone on the 20th+ floor or terrace. The wind must be cutting through with God speed. Perhaps, these few moments, bent over the rail of a typical skyscraper is akin to catching deep breaths and regathering—something most of us have done at our workplaces. The view from the top is equally breathtaking as long as you don’t hit the terrace every day. These fleeting moments of wind blowing under your feet can be liberating, can be the de-stressing tool that might have escaped our minds. Just think of really, really fast winds blowing your clothes away, putting your hair into total disarray, a view-that-could-literally-kill, and all of a sudden, you don’t want to light-up or reach out for that stress ball…just a few moments here could be the speck of mental composure-gaining exercise it takes to keep you saner, less anxious. The pollution does not feel that suffocating when you are towering about other humble mortals beneath, you are not sharing the space with someone else, and it is not really breaking-away from the workplace.