The feeling of traveling by train

The feeling I get when I’m traveling by train is the feeling of being totally at rest while still being in motion. I can’t do anything if I have nothing with me related to the outside world. Traveling with the train is being in a total other world. The train itself is a little universe which consist of the people on the train and is shaped by the body of the train. The duration of existence of this little universe is being determined by the time it takes the train to get from one station to the other station. Everything that happens in between these to moments gives shape and meaning to the universe inside the train.

It’s always a surprise what kind people are going to be in the train when you enter it and it depends on you what you and the others will do and what might happen. 

People sit quietly in there chair and look outside through the window. Other people are talking and again other people are reading and working. People from different backgrounds people, with different languages and people with different colors.  But everybody is going the same direction. The next station or maybe the station after the next station. The comforting part of the little universe is that it has a defined route and people have the knowledge about when their time has come to leave the train when their station is coming. The knowledge of where the train is, has been and where it is going is what gives train traveling a comforting feeling. The train travels to determined place. Because the people know where they are going the don’t think about it. After leaving the train everybody goes his or her own way. It depends on what a person finds the most comforting, what he or she will do in the train. Some people just like to think and look outside and when arriving at their station they will miss the feeling of standing still while being in motion. Occasionally it happens that you find yourself talking to somebody in the train you did not know, up until the moment you both sat down across form one-another and one of you started talking. Some times these conversation are fun and some time you think when is this over? That’s the nice thing and at the same time unpleasant thing about conversations in the train. When you find somebody you like talking to, you forget about time and you feel the point where you have to leave the train came to soon. Other times you feel like; Are we there yet I’m bored. This makes train traveling interesting, they road can be always the same it is what happens inside the train what makes every journey different. 

Although people may traveling in different direction and leave the train at different times and different station, they are still in the same situation which connects them. Whit-out knowing it, the people in the train are all doing the same thing; they are traveling. Whit-in this little universe is doesn’t matter where you come from or where you are going but it matter what you do with the time it take the train to get from it start to its end.

Talking with and looking at people. Wondering about the beauty of the train. What ever you want and happens.