Train

"Do we ride the train or does the train ride us?" I am taking a class called Financial Peace University and this quote from Henry David Thoreau came up tonight. We talked about it for a bit and came to the consensus that the train might be a convenience, but in the end the simplicity makes our lives more complex. The one thing that makes it easier to get us from place to place makes our lives move faster. It makes distant interaction more plausible, and things that were once impossible are now possible. Singers and song writers have been putting this idea to the lyric sheet for years.

Johnny Cash "hears the train a comin"

Amos Lee rides his "night train".

Zac Brown is "on a train that can't slow down."

The train ride for each of these individuals is uncertain they don't know how it will end. However, they ride anyway. They ride despite the complexities that lay around the bend. Whatever comes may be good it may be bad. The way the the train moves "ain't fair ya know."

Today it seems as though the train is moving faster. Don't let that hinder you from punching your ticket. Get on the train and ride.