There is something special about seeing the sunrise while sitting on a train. Rushing past the waking countryside and towns. Sitting motionless on a fast moving train watching the inaction of life outside. The Göteborg-Malmö line has not been part of my regular travels. Most of my trains have been in the east-west direction (Göteborg-Malmö) but now with the new job this trip is going to be a regular weekly event – So it’s kind of important that it’s a nice ride.
It was a long time since I had a first day at school after a summer vacation. You remember the feeling? New pencils and paper, maybe new clothes. A kind of anxious excitement about returning to the familiar routines. This is new and exciting. Even though I have no new lunch-box or pencil case
It also feels great to be breaking out of old routines and doing something new. It reminds me of the poem The Road not Taken by Robert Frost – OK so I had to look up the poem but I did remember the punchline
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.