The City Loop

Have you ever been on a train as it enters the underground of the city and let your mind wander?
Maybe you're reading a book,
maybe you're on your phone,
maybe you're looking out at the nothingness of the tunnel only to see yourself looking back at you.
Anyway, you're on this train,
lost in thought.

As it finally leaves the underground tunnels
and daylight returns,
you have this perception of where you are
and which direction you are facing.

But then you spot a landmark familiar to you,
and for a brief moment on top of your little chair
the world shifts and spins as you reorientate your reality.
You're not going where you thought you were, in fact,
you're heading in the complete opposite direction.
But it's the right direction,
and it always was.
The train never changed its course.
The world didn’t spin beneath you,
north didn’t become south,
nor east west.
The world stayed exactly as it was and where you were going did the same.

Nothing changed, other than your perspective.

—

I have the next two years of my life planned.
Maybe three.
Someone once told me planning more than three years ahead is ridiculous because too many variables will have changed in that time.
Maybe planning it at all is foolish for the same reason.

I know where I am going, I know what I want to do.
I know what's important.
I know who is too.
I also know another mass re-orientation is only ever just around the corner.

Hank Green in a video once said
“You are always a little bit wrong”.
He's right, I am wrong,
and I can't wait to see what about.

-Sam