Mr. Kong relates this to the kind of world we live in. He typifies our world as a crowded, impersonal place where anonymity, isolation and independence are the norm. People and situations in our lives are never permanent. Like a long journey, it brings the unexpected. And at the end, we sometimes find we are not the same person as at the beginning.
Trains are strange places.
Last week, I took a train journey. It began to move, faster and faster. The landscape blurred, taking on a different meaning. Nothing remained the same. The journey seemed forever.