For the second one, I saw it as a way to very quickly get myself into the headspace of the speaker. I had no trouble picturing and identifying with exactly how

For the second one, I saw it as a way to very quickly get myself into the headspace of the speaker. I had no trouble picturing and identifying with exactly how they were feeling: a sense of the world crumbling around them but also it not directly influencing them but also without any control over it but also they still had all of their regular problems. Not deep, not layered, no hidden meaning, just a quick way to explain exactly where they were at. I liked the first one less.