The Train

 Have you been on a Train! we all Millenials have. That Platform number 6 that you reach after climbing the stairs with your heavy bags and see for the board of AC compartment, walk to the end of the platform as 3AC is always at the end, and then you see the Train chugging along and you wonder whether it will stop at the place marked for AC. When it starts slowing you dont think it will stop at this place and then it slows down and stops right there!

Then you check your name on the torn paper with running out Ink, and you see it right there! You haul your very heavy bags into the narrow space near the toilets and sit on those blue seats and arrange the bags, when everyone is pushing, pulling and sweaty and making loud noises. You then wait and wait and wait and the train starts slowly. You dont look around for almost an hour, and then starts relaxing and smiling back at these strangers. The Aunty of the group breaks the ice and starts a conversation and in 10 hours you feel you have made the best friends on earth! You know them, they know you and you feel this journey will never end! 

And then it does. These people help you out with the luggage and carry things till you alight the steps and have your loved ones waiting and you say GoodBye! Again by the time you reach home, you smile about your partners in the train but you forget and move on!

Life as an adult often reminds me of many such Train Journeys. Filled with hopes and smile and then tears of Good Byes. 

Its just a series of so many Heartbreaks that you are strung on the good moments and hang on to them!

Your Train just moves from one destination to another, with all your heavy baggages and some people help hold that for you and you see some people filtered out of your life. Sometimes for Reason sometimes None. Very few hang on from the train and come back home and linger in your lifes journey as a permanent Passenger!

You Learn to cherish those who hang on! Those who accept your idiosyncraties, those who let you have your bad days and your down times, those who know what exactly to do to cheer you up, what exactly it takes to cheer you up and you can see that your cheer is the only thing they wish for! Its Selfless, Goal Less, Motive Less, just pure comfort!

Ask any girl if the Sharara gives comfort or the sleeveless Pajama and you know the answer!

Wishing you all a sweet pair of Pajamas for Life:)