Yesterday

Perhaps you had to wait a long time for a train yesterday. Perhaps you were frustrated, cold and hungry, annoyed with the railway service and the government that didn't fund them enough. This was a mistake. You must arrive at the train station and hope that your train is delayed. You must look forward to waiting, because it is in waiting that we are defined. Standing on that cold platform, there is nothing you can do to make the train come quicker. You can ask the guard, press the help button, but the train will not arrive. You are entirely helpless. It is in this moment that you are defined. How do you react? The only possible, the only reasonable, way for you to react is with joy. It is in the gaps in life, in order, in time, that we understand ourselves. It is in such moments that we are alive, that we face head-on our helplessness. Look at the other people on the platform, don't wish you were somewhere else, don't get frustrated. There is no past (you cannot go back through the ticket barriers), and there is no future (the train is not there to take you away), there is only the present: you on the platform, waiting. Engage fully in the moment, in the time given to you, and hope the train never comes.