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STOP THE TRAIN!

Routine has the disadvantage of eating time, you wake up, you follow the prewritten steps to destination finish and you lay down to sleep to embrace the waking hour of routine! We walk in unison all reaching the point of arrival only to return to start position and then restart! STOP! Stand in the crowd and recognise the motion and movement of the matrix we have created. You cannot leave the system but you have to break the routine before it breaks you, there is a second you can steal for yourself by recognising what you are doing.

Be a voyeur inside the life clock and grab the second hand, hold fast, keep it still, miss a heartbeat and let the tempo pass you by!If we could see ourselves then we would see that we are racing to a point of wishing we could turn back the time, but you can't you can only hope to slow it down long enough to see where you are and where you have been. As a child travelling on a train in Ireland I remember the train making an unscheduled stop of sorts, two nuns wishing to exit at the next town were informed that there was not a scheduled stop at that town so they convinced the porter to tell the driver to slow down so that they could jump off. After a blessing and a few kind words the door flew open and the nuns jumped out of the train, what a bizarre picture as the elderly women found their step and glided onto the platform turning only to thank the porter and waving the train on with their departure. I am still on the train and wish I had that power to make the train slow down so that I could get off, the fear is that you cannot get off, not change the schedule, not convince the powers that be that you need to exit!My mind is a daze of routine and time a metronome of planning and achievement, when we have achieved our goals the greater plan reveals the next objective. Attempt to stand fast and you will notice that the train will continue to move and the plan will continue in it's movement forward. We cannot stop, we have to stop the train before we fulfil our goal and realise that the time is up.

Today I feel like approaching the porter, I want to ask him if he can ask the driver to slow down I need to make an unscheduled stop, how ridiculous I'd look trying to explain that I need to see the train from outside, how I need to live the achievements of the past and present before racing into the future. With every day I notice what I have missed by always racing forward, we cannot live in the past but we must live in the present to be able to love this life.I saw the happiness in the elderly nuns as they hopped from the train they had changed the system to suit their ways and given life back those seconds that the perpetual motion forward was taking form them, I must live that smile and feel that whisper of wind that inner excitement of stopping!If we don't live the moment it will be gone to join the past without a word or embrace, it is our obligation to stand in the crowd leave the rhythm of unison and feel the firstly awkward step of individuality. We have to breath the air of life, each one of us deserves to have that second to enjoy the smell of content!

If it is all too fast, if it is rushing by and you feel you are losing the reward of all you have done then it is time to break the chains, it is time to STOP THE TRAIN!