“Freedom can be found through thought. The mind can let you escape to wherever you wish if you let it take you there. An ability that is crucial in the most dire times of trouble. As it allows a bit of respite when everything has turned so very dark.’
‘Are you a daydreamer?’
‘I was called that in school but really I was just thinking about other things.’
‘What sort of things?’
‘Projects. I would formulate them in my head then work on them when I got home. I liked to build vehicles, both small and large.’
‘Were you planning on going somewhere?’
‘Oh, I like to be on the move. As a kid I’d disappear in to the wilderness. Hiking through the hills or cycling through the woods. Now I let my mind roam.’
‘Where did the vehicles you built fit in to this?’
‘Mmm, I suppose they were prototypes for how I wanted to travel. A fast car, a plane, a boat. I never made a train strangely enough.’
‘Why is that strange?’
‘Because it is my favourite way to travel.’
‘So you like things to be laid down on rails?’
‘Oh I go off the beaten track far too often to say that that is the case. Trains just have a great sense of destination and you can mingle in ways that you can’t on other forms of transport.’
‘You can mingle on a ship.’
‘Trains don’t sink or have to deviate course because of the weather. You get on and nothing is going to stop you from getting to destination.’
‘Does this reflect your train of thought?’
‘Yeah, I suppose it does.’
‘What would a station reflect then?’
‘An option.’
‘An opportunity to settle down maybe?’
‘It could be that but those haven’t worked out very well for me. Maybe I just go off at the wrong station.’
‘Were there other stations that you wished you stopped off at?’
‘A couple yeah, but I didn’t get off did I. I just watched the waves of hands as the train left with me on it.’
‘That sounds like regret.’
‘It is but it is best to take it as a lesson learned. It’s a gentle thought really. A moment to ponder what may have been but never will be. A reminder that…’
‘That?’
‘A reminder that a simple gesture can change everything.’
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