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I said I wouldn’t go on about my personal life, so I’ll make the background info as brief as possible.

This weekend I flew up to London with my father to watch the Red Bull air race, and whilst sitting on the train going to the venue I noticed in particular the one station we didn’t stop at; more specifically the people waiting on it.

At the time I felt somewhat like I was in the music video of The Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar, but the moment I saw the last person on the platform zoom past, sitting on a bench in his green top and blue jeans (at least I think they were jeans), a thought hit me.

What I find nothing short of intriguing is the fact that how, to me or anybody else on that train for that matter, all those people are insignificant. Literally just blurs of colour speeding past outside our window and yet, each and every one of those ‘insignificant blurs’ has a life just as complex as, if not more than each of our own. Relationships, commitments, past, present, future… All the things that make you who you are - from the tiniest breeze to the greatest sledgehammer blow of experience you’ve ever had; he’s experienced his or her own set of events that created his life’s story.

Still despite all of this, you only ever see that brief flash of colour flying past your train window for barely half a second, likely never to be seen again and never thought of for a second time after that moment.

And here I am, two days after seeing that ‘bloke’ on the station platform wearing a green top and jeans, writing about it. .

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