Train Journey- The Microcosm of the Journey of Life

Can train journey be considered as a microcosm of life itself? Well, my answer is yes. You begin your journey at some point and ends up in a totally different place. Doesn't life too follow the same path? We see a hell lot of things in our life time, everything moving fast before us, just like we watch the things outside the window of the train as if in a movie. You might wish to pause there and enjoy the beauty of the moment, but alas! A train cannot be stopped and you move on. Similarly, in life you will encounter moments of happiness that you wish to stop and preserve forever. But time is an unstoppable runner and it moves on taking our happy moments along with it.

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The people we meet in train are no different from the people in our life. The one who sat near you in the next seat need not be the same whom you see while you get off from it. When they reach their station they will get off from the train without waiting for you to accompany. Hasn't life too got the same way of working? You begin your life with your parents and sometimes grandparents around you and by the time you reach old age you will have a different set of people around you. The place too need not be the same. Sometimes you will travel around and will return to the place from where you started your journey. It is just like coming back to the home where you were born when you reach old age. Just like Ulysses who came back to Ithaca after his long voyage.