I do enjoy the view. It isn’t always particularly beautiful but there are always lots of things to look at. I like to imagine what kind of people live in these places and what kind of lives they have. I imagine many of them live lives much “smaller” than ours. Many are elderly and while they probably have television and internet access, they probably don’t really know what to do with it.
Every once I need a while I see a little shack on the top of a mountain. Is there someone living there? What do they see when they wake up in the morning? Is it more like “Holy shit! Look at this beautiful mountain, I’m lucky to be alive?” Or is it more along the lines of “Stupid flies”? Do they truly know the paradise that they wake up to every morning?
There are farmers working in the fields. What are their dreams? Do they want to be like us? What do they care about? What’s their favorite food and entertainment? What do their relationships look like? What kind of drama do they have? How many degrees of separation are we?
What kind of secrets lay hidden in the landscape and inside these country houses? Are there any city people out here? What’s on the other side of the mountain? What walker like here before the train was built? What’s they’re relationship with it? What do they think when it speeds by? Or are they numb to it’s existsnce, an abstract shape that speeds by a few times an hour, shaking the ground when it comes...
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@whatamidoing, there is a wonderful Afrikaans poem by the poet Totius, masterfully capturing some of the questions you are posing. I have wanted to post the poem for a while now, but you have just inspired me to do it. I will send you the link as soon as I have done it.
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Thanks, I hope it is translated to English...I’m not from South Africa haha
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Yeah ~ I often wonder about similar things.
Everyone/everywhere has a story and it is easy to forget this as we go about our daily business.
Intriguing eh.
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xox
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I love to sit and people watch and write their stories. I imagine some of them are surprisingly accurate while others and way off. It’s also fun to narrate their inner dialogue if you find a friend to people watch with, that’s a bit sillier of an experience though
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I always do that too although on most of the train trips I take I'm just travelling to suburbia.
Another thing I do, especially on crowded trains or tubes is to wonder who would do what if there was an emergency.
Who would panic, who would be the voice of reason, who would get hysterical, who would be determined to save themselves etc.
Are you going somewhere fun on your train?
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The guard, driver & signalman are there in an emergency & they are trained to a very high standard. The drivers have to learn to be guards first so you have 2 trained guards on your train & They have to learn firefighting, advanced first aid & a whole host of safety things, they are like a cross between a fireman a paramedic & a policeman essentially.
The way the signalling on the railway works these days is called 'Track circuit block' It is a fail safe method & it ensures the signalman know exactly where every train is on the network at all time if anything happens 'they know instantly' The guard & driver know every inch of the track they travel & are tested stringently they have to literally recite every inch of it, Just Clapham Junction alone would take some serious study, I believe a train passes through Clapham every 6 seconds.
Since it has been privatized in the UK now I don't think it's what it was in terms of safety, they are talking about doing away with the guard all together now in my own opinion they are making a huge mistake & will probably end up having to revert the whole thing back 25-30 years I hope they don't, I can just see a huge public outcry after impending disasters that are sure to happen as they continue to abandon the old 'safety first' method of the nationalized system. To come in line with the 'protect profit at all cost' business model.
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I wouldn’t call it fun but at least there is good food.
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Well that's something! 😍
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https://steemit.com/poetry/@minnaloushe/repos-ailleurs
I have translated the poem that I was talking about. You can have a look in my post, if you want. (This is not for vote begging, it is just for the sake of interest, because I thought that the poem captures a lot of your thoughts).
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I often fantasize about buying up a plot of land in a rural community somewhere, building a geodesic home, and growing my own food.
Whether I'd ever actually do it or not is another question, but I like to learn about vegetable-growing and homesteading techniques on YouTube.
That knowledge might come in handy someday!
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I know what you mean. I’d like to do it with a community, looking for the right place and people for me. I’m still kind of a city guy so I’d need good access to something more urban too.
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Yes, I find the idea of self-sustainable independent communities very appealing.
In fact, the timing of your post is very much opportune, as I just finished watching a fascinating interview with Titus Gebel on the topic of private cities.
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I will try to check it out, thanks for bringing it up.
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Nice
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