Life is like a Train

 Hey people!

After a long time, I am back again to share my thoughts on life—lessons I have learned over the past few years. I would also love to know your stories in the comments, as they help us understand this topic from different perspectives.

Have you ever travelled on a train?

Of course, some journeys are short, and some are long.

People in our lives are like passengers—they come and go. But in the end, we all reach the same station: the purity of our soul, not our body. Even our body has its final station on this earth, after which it leaves the soul free for the next journey.

I have learned a beautiful lesson from this journey of life and death: the choices we make shape the events of our lives, just like stations on a train. From each station, we choose what we want to take with us in life.

Some journeys are short, where we wish we could step back, revisit opportunities, rewind our thoughts, and repair relationships—like passengers who stay with us only briefly. These short spans teach us about opportunities, thoughts, and our ability to hold on to them.

But in the long journey of life, until death, we get only one opportunity each fresh day—to rewrite our story with hope when we sleep at night, believing we will wake up the next morning. Yet, we never know when our last station will come. Death is the ultimate truth of life.

We need to answer all questions to God, not to anyone else, because we took the ticket for this life from Him. So why should we worry so much about people in this journey (train), or about passengers who come and go?

In my opinion, short journeys teach the biggest lessons. One of the most important lessons I have learned so far is not to trust anyone completely except your own soul—because it is the only thing that truly knows you inside and out. Without being judgmental, this understanding also helps us see others on the same page.

Blindly trusting people can be the biggest scam. Relationships should be maintained equally from both sides, like two hands clapping together. It is never one-sided. Trust issues are like broken glass—they leave scars and can never be the same again.

You may think you are important in your own life journey (train), believing you are the TC here. But remember, a TC can be replaced at any time. Likewise, you can be replaced in any event or at any station. People value your presence only as long as you are useful to them—like plastic bottles at a station. Even after your final journey (death), life goes on without you.

Mistakes are common in this journey. We often absorb negative energy from our surroundings until we find fresh air—positive energy. I have made many mistakes too. My biggest mistake was sharing my life story and personal details with people who did not deserve to hear them. As I always say, we see things not as they are, but as we are.

I may not be able to meet the passengers who left this journey behind. But if I ever hurt anyone—intentionally or unintentionally—I am truly sorry. I hope we understand that the journey and destination are the same, but our choices of passengers and events are different.

Before I close my thoughts on this topic, I want to say this: life is a beautiful journey. We make it complicated with unnecessary events and by choosing the wrong stations and passengers—but that’s okay.

Stay with the right passengers and choose the stations that make you happy. Because you never know when your last station will arrive. Until then, enjoy your journey of life—the train.