Trains & Stations

I will tell you more about the train, but not tonight, I am really tired of it


Train spotters, WTF! I guess it's a male's hobby in this emancipated world we live in? Let me just say I don't do it but I do understand the seek for a thrill after done with the dishes The anticipation... the wait for the hunt... the extreme rush... and then finally the kill (without a sole getting hurt)! Yeah!

I think trains became so part of our evolution I can be fairly sure to say without a doubt that it goes by unnoticed. I am no station manager or anything like that but I am sure there must be something like the ten commandments for trains don’t you agree? Like: Thou shalt not derail, and Thou shalt not steal another's trucks and, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's trucks, and so on...

I will even go further to say that I think man created trains in its own image. Just think, think about the idioms we have... the end of the railway line? the wrong side of the tracks, on the right track, the gravy train and so on and so forth.

But before I miss my train of thought ( ), it is, in my opinion, only when we explore parallels like this we can have language become fuzzy and one can really come to appreciate the journey, the journey we have to take exploring a path from a question to the answer. So, if we pose a question on the verge of what our language can express, can expect the answer to lay on this same fuzzy boundary also? And if we can truly and honestly answer to ourselves and our god that we have travelled the complete journey from the question to the answer, just what have we discovered then??


And this Ladies and Gentlemen this is really my question to you and myself (when you are sitting in a train): why is it better when the train moves as opposed to when the train stands still? ... ?

This journey took me three years of my life to complete, and boy, what have I learned!

There, I have said it! How I came about this? Well, I will tell you another time. It really is the story of my life, and what a journey it has been (thus far).