My Train Ride from Palatine towards Life

                                                           

I made my mind to go that place , after thinking over it and deciding what's the best way . The train came hushing without the trademark blaring horn . I was ready to close my ears with my index fingers as I expected a horn , that will startle the unsuspecting bystander but no. The double decker pulled itself onto the platform gracefully like a water running down a rock. It appeared to be levitating over the tracks that seemed to show no strain in carrying the monstrous object on its back. I have never been on a double decker and before my logical system began ruminating over where to sit, my legs took me to the upper deck and in a blink I was seated in the last seat by the window with a good view of the train. A two seater with no one beside me. Just a late 20s guy , wearing a black jacket and headphones and a backpack to help him sustain himself with some food and resources for that day. I usually get inspirations and deep realizations at the most random places , BOOM . It happened again. I realized how this train journey and my life in general drew parallels. Tens and hundreds of fellow people share my journey to the destination , in a train we are going to be temporarily be seated , making our own plans in our own worlds. Some get in the train ,some hop off , some ride the full journey with me , some sit beside me , while some just look at me but none of this. None of this is "my journey" . Everything around me is moving , revolving, orbiting but none of this is "me". I am an object in time, surrounded by other objects that supposedly , have some effect in me putting my energies in a trance . None of this is real . The music I was listening, the different people with different shades of personalities and belongings , with their own maps to their chosen destinations. I was in my own journey , travelling to a place that made the most sense to me , in a manner that made me feel happy with the resources that I thought will help me reach my destination. But , all this is happening from within me. My own personal enclosure of emotions, thoughts , dreams and fears .The universe tapped on my shoulders just in time, before I became asleep and aloof of WHO I AM , what I am doing here and the like. I realized just like how the various things that was in action around me had no profound personal impact in my journey to my chosen destination , but merely just events that were in place to help me understand my position in this otherwise empty space and time. Everything in my life is like a compass, that helps me understand where I am, but all the journey happens within. I am not travelling on the outside . I am in my own time capsule , my own sphere of realizations , the end of which i will forget that I have an "outside" , as i dissolve into the place where I came from.  Life is a beautiful journey. Sometimes doors close. Sometimes, they open by themselves. But we must never lose sight of who we are, why we are here, where we are going . When a mind reaches this state , it becomes immune from what's happening on the outside. I was lost in these whirlpool of thoughts when I had a sudden urge to look outside and realized I had reached my destination .

The rise or fall of others in their respective journeys cease to distract our own linear journey towards the realization of the self , the moment we realize our own personal coordinates in TIME and SPACE. Discover yourself . Before you reach the end of your journey...