I write this as I wait on a train at a station in the middle of nowhere. Our train has broken down, apparently, and we’re not going anywhere anytime soon. We can’t get off. We are stuck and cannot do anything about it.

 It’s like an analogy for life. However well you prepare, you can never anticipate everything – despite all your plans and arrangements, things can go pear-shaped.

 So I sit and wait – and think, a dangerous sport at the best of times. I can’t say things are all that bad for me, really. Just like this train. It may occasionally stop and need help to get going again, but it is not a write-off. Admittedly though, some things may need changing.  And that is what I am working on – changing those things in my life that need changing.

 This process may be painful, the results not always what we want, but there must be movement towards new things and new places. I need to close a chapter – or two – and start a couple of new ones.

 As if on cue, my train has sprung back to life. I intend doing the same.