ONE TRAIN, DIFFERENT STOPS.

You must have heard this old saying, “Twenty children cannot play together for twenty years” countless times and you must have also gotten tired of hearing that no two people’s paths in life are the same. As cliché as that has gotten, there’s no overemphasizing it, because it’s gospel. Think about when you were five, and if you can, think about all your close friends at the time, are you still inseparable? Do they still come to your house every day? Do you seek them out like you did several years ago? I think not, you might have even lost contact with many of them. As for me, I can only remember one friend from when I was five and as you have rightly guessed we are not in contact. I bet if we saw today, I wouldn’t have more than one sentence to say to her. It’s nobody’s fault, we can only blame the transient nature of life for this.

Permit me to use yet another cliché, yes, it’s the one you’re thinking about, the one about life being a train and people being passengers on that train with different destinations. As old as that may be, it is also true. As you grow through different stages of your life, you come in contact with different people. People that you never fathomed you would meet, some to whom you open the arms of friendship to and some to whom you don’t. You would realize that every person you’ve ever met has been essential to your life and has taught you one or two lessons. While this is a good theme for discussion, it would be for another day.

The thing about people on a train or a bus is that, they have one thing in common, which is the fact that they all have a destination. It’s easy to initiate a chat with a passenger, become fast friends and maybe even besties but one thing about these passengers is that no matter how distracted they get, they never forget their destination. Have you ever been so consumed in a conversation with someone that you forgot your stop? Let’s say you did get engrossed and the bus passed your stop, but when you noticed what did you do? I’m sure you hollered at the driver to stop and when you got down, you walked down or took yet another bus and started to your original location.

There are many things that could distract us, make us question our pretension and lose focus of our destinations or who we are called to be. Sometimes those things would have us subjugate ourselves to wishful thinking and utopic imaginations; things that cannot be and when we start comparing our present reality with what we have imagined or with those people around us that seem to have it good, it gets us down and depressed. Yes, we are all passengers on that train called life and for some of us, our destinations are farther than others. So when you are feeling down because you feel like your friends seem to have things figured out and you don’t, remember that it’s just a matter of when and not if; you will surely reach your destination.

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