Everything happens all the time.

Somewhere there's a tree burning and nobody is there to see it. 

But I know that it's happening, regardless of somebody seeing it.

Right now, somebody's dog is being hit by a car,  

a father is cradling the whimpering beagle in his arms

thinking about how to tell his daughter that her pet is dead.

He might write about this in his journal

or force himself to forget that it ever happened 

by buying another small dog.