“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
This Carlos Zafón quote poignantly describes my waiting for a local train to arrive while watching several express trains speed past my station.
It makes a person question his or her travel choices.
(No, this post is not a New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) free-for-all.)
Go ahead. Pour a cup of tea.
Freedom of movement is relatively easy to take for granted. It’s easy, that is, until movement becomes restricted. Then we long to move.
