.Thoughts on a train ride to school.
It was a typical trip to a 830am econs class on a Wednesday morning, save for the fact that I was running aprroximately 10 minutes late for class, and that I was silently cursing at myself for buying the extremely uncomfortable pair of 3-inch wedges while nursing cuts or potential cuts on my precious feet.
Suddenly, a clear and cheerful child's voice chimed through the haze of tired adult solemness.
"Mummy, what's that?", the little boy said as he pointed to a point fast rolling out of view as the crowded train pushed forward.
"What's that?", he followed up without so much as a halt after his mother answered his previous question.
A smile rose briefly to my lips as what my cousins and mum call my 'never-ending whys' phase floated across my mind. That time didn't seem so long ago, although at least 15 years have since passed.
15 years. Not too long a period. But neither can it be considered short. Approximately 17% of my expected lifespan. What have I achieved? What do I hope to achieve? Where am I heading? Where?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Don't know... don't know... ...
With my 21st birthday fast approaching, I've never felt so lost.
Suddenly, a clear and cheerful child's voice chimed through the haze of tired adult solemness.
"Mummy, what's that?", the little boy said as he pointed to a point fast rolling out of view as the crowded train pushed forward.
"What's that?", he followed up without so much as a halt after his mother answered his previous question.
A smile rose briefly to my lips as what my cousins and mum call my 'never-ending whys' phase floated across my mind. That time didn't seem so long ago, although at least 15 years have since passed.
15 years. Not too long a period. But neither can it be considered short. Approximately 17% of my expected lifespan. What have I achieved? What do I hope to achieve? Where am I heading? Where?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Don't know... don't know... ...
With my 21st birthday fast approaching, I've never felt so lost.