“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape”

Alain de Botton

Sri Lanka | Unawatuna
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The train was 15 minutes late arriving - nobody seemed to care. On the platform, two British men were talking to each other. The words muffled behind the noise of the station, but their gestures suggested that they were old friends. Without realising it seemed that they were drifting closer towards to us. They probably heard us also speaking in English. Throughout my body, and all over my skin, I sensed that the boundaries of my privacy were about to be invaded, except it wasn't an invasion, through accidental gazes and faux smiles I had hit 'send to all' on an invitation to a party that I was hosting, that I really didn't want to attend.

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