A platform for a train can be such a boring place, but this train station in black and white looks almost futuristic. Under a mountain somehow it feels like you are waiting for a spaceship to come and take you to your destination.
Of course in order to get to the right destination, you need to be on the right platform for the right track so that at the right time. And even if you are at the right place, if you are in a foreign country and they may make announcements that may imply the change of platforms, perhaps you are not astute enough to understand it, so the consequences are as they are.
Today this image wanted to be shared because sometimes as human beings we also need to make sure we are on the right track to get to where we need to be. Sometimes however there is so much data around, that it is very difficult to make the right decisions. Sometimes our inner world is so busy with the noise of the past that is finding it difficult to focus on the here and now and therefore loses sight of the future.
Today I was talking about a number of people on this very topic. One elder was talking about the political situation of a particular country and how nothing is changing, and at the same time was making references to a system that was oppressive and how that system at least made things work. This elder is also blaming one individual when there are hundreds who can make a difference. So in fact this elder is now a victim of a system because their rights are not readily known.
In another conversation I was asked about training that I may be interested and I highlighted how in order to grow I have given up waiting, and that instead I take charge of my own development and progress. I do this because waiting for someone to be gracious enough to approve something takes too much time, and therefore would mean relying on someone to make a move in order for another cog to turn, so that the next cog is turned. So I guess this discussion mirrors the first.
I then had 4 other conversations in the same vain. Clients complaining how other people around them are not doing anything, all the while they themselves are not doing anything about changing. So they await change to be external instead of making an internal change.
It is as if you are waiting and waiting for a train on a platform whilst all the while the announcement says your train is on the other platform, and instead of you moving to the platform you still expect for your train to alight at the platform you are standing on.
I wonder how many times you waited and waited and waited for an external change, only to figure it out that perhaps the change was needed internally?
I wonder how many times you put off getting on the train because you were hoping that the next one would have more seating space on it?
I wonder how many opportunities to let pass you by because you hoped there is a next time?
How many times you gave up being the agent of your own development because you felt like the victim of some circumstance?
Showing up to the station doesn’t just imply staying idle and wait for you to be scooped up and put on the train, you have to do something to become a passenger. And even if you are a passenger, there will come a time when you have to get off at the next station.
Are you on the right track yet? Or are you still standing on the wrong platform willing your train to skip lanes?
Time to take out your diary and take some notes when answering the questions.
