Home Alone or Medium Alone

Medium is not a solo journey; it’s a group voyage.

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You see, there is a train line in the picture signifying a long journey from one city to another, or maybe from one country to another if it’s in Europe.

Ten years ago, I used to travel frequently between Karachi and Lahore on the train known as Karakoram Express. The distance between these two cities in Pakistan is around 1200 km by train, and it takes this specific train around 16 to 17 hours to reach one of the two cities.

Don’t think we had any airplanes in our country at that time.

The arrangement of the cabin is like it has six berths in all, three on one side and three on the other. So one cabin has a capacity of six passengers.
Most of the time all six passengers are strangers to each other.

During my first ride, I felt miserable spending 8 to 10 waking hours. Even reading a book was not comfortable. I felt very lonely throughout the journey, whereas others were enjoying their time.

Actually, it was too bad of them not to invite me…