Ok, so I ran this past a very educated guy at a funeral.
Life is like a train?
A train, running on smooth tracks continually, the train comes to a junction and there is a lot of jumping around as it goes over the points and slows down. then it pulls into a station and stops.
After a while the train pulls out and picks up speed until running smoothly again.
My theory is this.
The smooth track is life ok?
The bumpy points and junctions are upsets and problems ok?
The station is death
then the train pulls out and picks up speed until it's carrying on as normal. well that is a way I think of looking at it
how doyou see it?
Is this a good explanation?

What I'm reading there, is that you believe life goes on after death, despite death being an unpleasant experience.

Since I have no recollection of having done that, I can't say whether you have it right or not. I hope you're right, but that's about it.

I'm not looking to be right or wrong really.
Just comparing the bumpy bits and yes the train carried on as does life.
I've experienced it many times, this is I guess a light hearted way of looking at something that is very difficult for most.

Life is not like a train.
Life is just life.
You are either alive or you are not.

People are good at making things complicated.
We assign all kinds of requirements to simple concepts.
When we do that, it changes our perceptions of reality.
When reality surfaces our delusions go wonky and it causes stress.

I see a lot of people that live in a state of constant anticipation.
They constantly adjust their actions in the hope of a planned outcome.
They review their actions and assess, adjust and challenge so they can hone their actions to better affect their planned course.
Very few actually live in the moment.

What happens when you assign requirements to life is that life doesn't always play along with your desires. That is because life is just life and has no performance requirements past the state of existence.

Life is created, exists for some duration and ends...Period.
Nothing more and nothing less.

What we call life is merely the existing part of it. It is the duration during which we experience and gain wisdom. That duration can be simple and pleasant or complicated and stressful. It is all up to the person.

I was making a comparison not trying to make a point of how life is or how it starts or ends!

Rut roh!
(What does it mean when you see a station ahead?)

The bumpy bits are problems, ie, financial, children, car, anything really.
The station is if someone close to you passes away
In both cases when you get through it life becomes smooth again.
Like you're feet! It's a bumpy time but will get better, I hope lol

Was he the one in the coffin?


Not really.
But for analogies you can make pretty much anything like anything else.
"The sun is like a fart, full of warm gas, something you don't want to get too close to, silent, but deadly."


You get smooth tracks either because the land was already smooth, or because a bunch of slaveish labor went in and dynamited the crap out of a place.

So you're saying life is smooth as long as we can whip some people into making it smooth for us by blowing stuff up and doing the hard parts, telling us where to go, leading us to a station?
Awesome!


Preferably without analogies.

Ok, will try help those who are finding it difficult.
Life is like a train is a clue
Station is a a clue
And you pull out of the station is a clue

I reassert...

Life is like a train?
Ok. I can appreciate that.
The tracks are the path of life.
You are the conductor or engineer. You give direction to the train.
Most of the time you go forward. Sonetimes you go backward.
The train switches tracks taking you on a different path. Sometimes tge train derails like our plans that don't turn out.
You clean up what you can. Look into the cause. Then rebuild the tracks and keep going.
Sometimes you are just the engine traveling alone to meet your destination. Sometimes you have empty cars waiting to be filled like dreams waiting to he made reality.
Sometimes your liad is so heavy lije the burdens in life.
You go through tunnels like life's darker moments.
You keep going believing you will come back out to the light.


Have a great day

I already put up a thread like this a few months ago called "Train Journey"

Thanks ana, happy that you can see it

Cool, so you understand me?

Just remembered a topic about train journey which explains my understanding of "life is like a train" you may read my answer here

https://m.mingle2.com/topic/show/497092

Yes mikey you sweety

Thank god for that

I can see it is a good comparison as any.

For some life is like a train, goes on chosen path.Ana explained it very well.
For some it's like a roller-coaster. Always on high, full of adrenaline, but lasts only short time.
For some it's like a house, standing on one place, not moving anywhere, just gaining dust and growing old, before finally collapses.
For me it's a car ride. Choosing different roads and highways, making stops on crossroads to look back and remember what I've learned and experienced, choose the direction to move forward again.

^^^This, I couldn't have said it better. I will add though about the station. Mikey, you mentioned the station being "death". When we have a loss in our life, everything stops for us, like at the station. It's the resting place. It's the place where we look where we were and prepare for the next journey ahead. Where we gather the tools and resources to continue our journey. When we begin again to carry on with our journey, it's like a train leaving the station, usually at a slow pace, sometimes quickly, and eventually we are once again steady.

Interesting correlation mikey and it makes sense...in a strange but cool way.

I like dreamerana understanding and explanation of this topic. And Pisces' additional comment makes it clearer. Kudos to both ana and pisces

May I add that we all have choices in how to to live our lives while the train is moving... some people would say this is boring and would just sit there and brood.. but some would enjoy the scenery, some people would talk and get to know the other passengers, some people would sing and dance...

Interesting topic, mikey