Derail the misery train
When
referring to baggage the first image that comes to one’s mind is an airport or
a bus station with people ready to board and travel. A metaphorical approach is
quite similar though. Life is nothing but a big, crowded train station,
equipped with an enormous board of arrivals and departures. We are all
travellers there and we carry a damn great load of baggage, varying from
handbags to huge suitcases we drag behind us.
How you
call them is not important at all. Name them problems, memories or experience.
Each trip stacks something more on the pile. We all travel to a destination
called “our own future”, with dreams as tickets and misery as luggage.
Hopefully, no ticket and no bag is identical to anything else. Imagine how
chaotic the situation would be in such a crowded station otherwise, if by any
chance suitcases were mistaken and given to different owners.
This is
exactly how it works with life. No matter how hard we try to get rid of
negative energy, we will eternally drag our personal misery behind us. We’ll
try, and it is also advisable to bury it –or, even better put it inside a box
and let it sink in the deep blue sea. But, at the same time, it is almost an
axiom that when a situation causing similar feelings occurs, the misery box will
–surprise, surprise– float to the surface again.
When it
comes to dreams, misery takes no prisoners. Sad, true and inevitable. Fighting
against it can actually be efficient; on one condition. Never let other
people’s miseries invade yours. When adjacent, they tend to multiply really
fast and every treatment seems vain. You are capable, or have somehow learnt to
face and ignore your own demons. However, this doesn’t happen when third-party
troubles invade your personal space.
Be a good
listener, but don’t claim someone else’s misery. And never – do never get
carried away by any proximity you have to that person carrying the misery
baggage. It can be an acquaintance, a friend, or even a lover. Despite
whichever feelings you may have for that particular person, listen to their
problems, complains, or even nagging, but don’t absorb them.
Because one
of the things that misery is good at, is killing your dreams without you even
noticing. There is no time for any kind of hope when you are carrying your
pain, someone else’s and adapt accordingly. On the contrary, whoever this
someone else is, after using you as a bell boy for their baggage, they will
only continue enjoying the trip, while you kneel under the weight and sweat
your ass out from carrying more and more.
It’s only
up to you. Will you keep getting your dreams fucked or will you derail the
misery train?
First Publication: pillowfights.co.uk
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