There is a desire to ask if a train passes
This I sang and I sang in my head countless times this week. And it is a simple phrase, very simple, but full of sentimineto and meaning. It's a lovely little phrase. And no matter what the desire that you can get when it does, deep down I conmuve.
From time to sing at a time when my head was the subject of trains. And in this country do not exist. And although this may be a repetitive theme in me, this time I did not think the economic impact, or the difficult geography, or what may be an efficient railway system for transporting cargo or in reducing emissions, or in the comfort or all the things I have to say that rock trains in all.
No, this time I thought of the cultural amputation involving not have trains. Because metaphors are a formidable machine. Or a metaphor for life itself and its changes. Try to explain a little more.
trains have a particularity: they are quite specific. This is not due to simple respect for the passenger, but as two trains in opposite directions must share a single pair of rails as a train can not be sidelined to make way for another, punctuality became a requirement in order to coordinate cmabios-rail stations or on the sites chosen. If a train is delayed, it could delay the whole system much. This is no longer a problem in some developed countries, where several pairs of rails for a single route. Anyway, punctuality is respected. All this to say that if you got time, you caught the train, but if not, you lost. Nobody will expect.
And here there is a commonplace of literature, music and movies ... missed a train. Because they take is actually what you expect. Or what you believe will happen. But if you lose, it's like one of those blows of life. Things that happen and that it can not do anything about it. Must wait the time pass and wait to ride another chance to get on a different train. Hell, like life itself. And is that losing a train would lose by the minute. You can even see him go on the run with luggage at the station. Because the train waits for no man, nor by anyone. Has your schedule and can not be changed. And as much as a cry and pray, things are as they are.
But as in life itself, lose or mounted on a train may be the best or worst thing that can happen. A meeting with someone in a season in which you are trapped can change your life forever. Or avoid an encounter with someone who sat on the train. Per is not always so. There is also lonely nights sleeping in an uncomfortable bench in season. It's like all a lottery.
Hhay moments all we want and need is getting on the train that will take us elsewhere, to other ports healthier for us. At sites where the air know than to not try more of it. But if we believe in things larger than ourselves, that we will need to know when we should go, and lose a train can make us breathe the air of this type that we need to continue breathing.
Anyway, the address always remains an option. And there are trains to all parties. Is that life is like a giant station.
PS: Sorry for the ether of this post, I think I was the subject pa big so I tried to address. But I did not stop publishing it. Probably back on this issue later.
PD2: The photo is taken from flickr http://flickr.com/photos/molinary/2351585178/
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