- The Man In The Station

He still had one whole hour to wait for his departure. He took a seat and stared with empty gaze at the crowd that walked around, rushing to their respective departures or simply waiting for their kin to show up.

There was something special going on that Sunday evening. The whole station atmosphere was polluted with some melancholic and invisible fog. He could read some kind of sad feeling in most of everyone’s eyes. These people never tended to look up; they looked down as if there was something to be found in the ground. Everything seemed to become greyer and greyer.

The station looked as beautiful as he remembered from his arrival. But the perspective this time was very different. The walls remained the same, but there was this strange feeling taking place. Like if everyone shared the same sad feeling. The roof was the same roof he found in when he first came in, but it really was not.

He suddenly realised the power that the station itself had. Every Friday the station had the power to reunite families, friends and couples. But its role changed on Sundays, as it just broke any kind of ties until the next Friday reunited them back again. It was quite paradoxical for a non-living being; causing pain and hurting feelings so the next Friday it could heal, with love, the wounds caused; like a phoenix reincarnates from its own ashes.

And he, like everyone else in the station, could not escape to that power.