Train

A train was full of excited passengers, unusually so, enthusiastic presumably for the place they were headed, and also a little perhaps simply for the pleasure of the journey. The train left the station and headed left. We’ll skip the pleasures of the journey, but anyway much time later some people tried to make it known that it was here they were getting off. They were a little surprised maybe that up till now there had been no stops, but anyway, whatever about that, all the best to everyone who was continuing on further but this was far enough for them. The future would surely would treat everyone well, and we were essentially all on this journey together … brotherhood … sisterhood - naturally things weren’t spoken out quite like that, it was more a common and understood feeling than anything else.

However when they finally found some official on the train to clarify about where and when they could expect to be disembarking, they were astonished to be told that there would be no stops, everyone had to go on this journey all the way to the end. And this was related quite sternly, the passengers were even made to feel some kind of guilt, and which they did feel by some kind of osmosis, for thinking of not completing the journey all the way to the end. What kind of brotherhood and sisterhood could it be if they thought they could go getting off whenever and wherever they chose - again this didn’t need to be pronounced. And so they sat back down, and looked out the windows at the changing terrain.