20071130
We are on the train.
I am.
They are.
Currently, you are on the train. Later you may not be on the train anymore but will go one, if not this one, soon. And then you will be on the train again.
There are people on the train. I don't know them, but one day I could meet them again. And ask: are you the one from the train? And be told: yes. Or else they will not remember me, or I will not remember them. We may not remember each other at all. We will talk and talk and talk and talk but maybe the subject of trains will never come up, because why would it? And then we may never know that at one time our trajectories did cross at a singular point - a train ride- at some time in the past. We will know each other but never know that once we were on the train together- we rode a train together! That was the start! Some people will never ride trains together. Some people will never ride a train with you, or with me. We are already a step ahead! We have already made it possible for ourselves to connect because we chose to get on the train and thus we chose to be near each other. And if we meet again, do not think that it has nothing to do with this train ride, because each subsequent meeting of our bodies in space depends on, owes itself to, making the choice to place ourselves on this vessel and be carried over tracks to our destination. We chose this. You chose it. So why are you just sitting there? Why are we doing nothing about this chance we've been given? Reach out and take it,
it's yours
did you ride the metro north on 30 november, 2007? if so, this post is about you. also it's good because it's metaphorical and deep.