I retired in 1996 after plying trains on the Western Railway for 41 years – steam, diesel, electric traction, including 25 years over the suburban network as a Motorman.
A Motorman sets off for work like any other worker. Moreover, he is a peacetime civilian, not a wartime soldier.
Unlike a doctor or a priest who visits terminal patients, countless times i have watched horror stricken as normal citizens like you and me, in their hurry to cross the tracks and beat the oncoming train, are tragically knocked down, many of them fatally.
People contemplating suicide often hurl themselves before the speeding train. Some take time to die. As they lay on the track, watched by a motley group of commuters, their eyes revealed the mystery hidden from all of us during our earthly journey. The mystery of Life on Earth. With their Head pillowed on the railway track, i would gently ask them to seek pardon from our Maker, as they prepare to enter their heavenly home.
Suicide is a societal failure. At the decisive stage, a person decides that there is no hope in this life, perhaps the next life might provide as a solution. Beauty, Wealth and Wisdom do not prevent this Depression. An idyllic depiction is The 2010 Black Swan movie based on Tchaikovsky's ballet.
Conversation is expressing the negative and suppressing the positive. We pretend the positive and deny the negative.
The only true conversation is with our Maker through Prayer and Meditation. Easier said than done.
On Sep 24, 2012 DenisKhan wrote:
I retired in 1996 after plying trains
on the Western Railway for 41 years – steam, diesel, electric traction,
including 25 years over the suburban network as a Motorman.
A Motorman sets off for work like any
other worker. Moreover, he is a peacetime civilian, not a wartime soldier.
Unlike a doctor or a priest who
visits terminal patients, countless times i have watched horror stricken as
normal citizens like you and me, in their hurry to cross the tracks and beat
the oncoming train, are tragically knocked down, many of them fatally.
People contemplating suicide often
hurl themselves before the speeding train. Some take time to die. As they lay
on the track, watched by a motley group of commuters, their eyes revealed the
mystery hidden from all of us during our earthly journey. The mystery of Life
on Earth. With their Head pillowed on the railway track, i would gently ask
them to seek pardon from our Maker, as they prepare to enter their heavenly
home.
Suicide is a societal failure. At the
decisive stage, a person decides that there is no hope in this life, perhaps
the next life might provide as a solution. Beauty, Wealth and Wisdom do not
prevent this Depression. An idyllic depiction is The 2010 Black Swan movie
based on Tchaikovsky's ballet.
Conversation is expressing the
negative and suppressing the positive. We pretend the positive and deny the
negative.
The only true conversation is with
our Maker through Prayer and Meditation. Easier said than done.