Platform

Well, I was listening to Gulzar reminding Pancham about the time when they used to wait on the railway tracks. This started me thinking. We hear a lot about comparision between trains and life, it lead me to a few ponderings.

Are we travelling in a train to find our destination? or Are we waiting for the right train to arrive? Whatever may be the case, interesting part is that its fun to be a part of it.

If we are inside the train, its fun to eagerly wait for an unknown companion whose company may be fun or not as much fun, we don't know know how long the companionship will last. Its possible that either of us may find our destinations before other and one of us need to wait longer possibly to find another passenger or reach our stop to end the journey.

If we are waiting on the platform we may be waiting for the right train to arrive. Most of my experince is on Indian platforms so we can be kept waiting till eternity for the train to arrive. At times you will be in the station but you may still miss the train because you were late by minutes or on the wrong platform. Sometimes we don't need to wait or check the schedule, we are at the right place in right time to get right train.

But what about those who came to station only to realise that they like where they are and their journey seem to have ended even before it started?

PS: Talking about trains, I didn't travel much by trains but used to go to railway station to see off friends. I used hate Narsapur express like hell.