The Daily Doodles

“Waiting for the Train”

Train after train passes by, each more empty than the last and none going where he needs to go, so Kyle sighs dramatically to see if he can make a loud enough noise to echo in the desolate subway station (he can’t).

He refuses to check his phone to see when his train is even scheduled to arrive, since that would show he cares, and Kyle feels the need to passive-aggressively take a stand to no one in particular to prove how much he simply doesn’t care.

Plus it’s more fun to sigh and moan over the train’s assumed lateness, acting as if it’s a huge annoyance, even though he keeps telling himself he doesn’t even wanna go.  Being upset over it at least passes the time while he waits.

Having laid in bed for days, too depressed to move, Kyle somehow dragged himself out of his apartment to go meet up with some of his friends like he had promised over a week ago.  He finds it hard to imagine that people do this every day, and that they even look forward to hanging out with people… it’s all such a hassle.

It was exhausting to even get this far with it…!  

His train finally arrives, but Kyle decides he’ll just text his friends a happy lie so he can go back home and be alone.

(Thank you to the Sensational Samantha of other-side-of-the-universe.com for helping me gif this once again!!)

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“The First Worst Day Ever”

As the train chugs along slowly, he watches the scenery pass
And Aaron Wellers rests his head against the cool window’s glass.
He cringes out a sigh and tries to stifle a cry,
His first Worst Day is over, and he just wants to die.

His compartment is empty, and that’s the one thing that’s gone right
But the loneliness makes him think, and it’s a long trip through the night.
Stuck in the moment, and dwelling on all he did wrong
He knows that he will remember this awful day, for all his life long.

As the years pass, other Days come and go
Some good and some bad, and time continues to flow…
New lives and experiences, each more different than the last
And eventually Aaron’s worst day of his life, fades away to the past.

It doesn’t feel possible now, while he’s still stinging from the squall
But there will come a day when this doesn’t bother him at all.

The next morning he wakes up, as his destination arrives
Aaron steps off the train, and gets on with living his lives.

Posted 9/25/2012

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“Thoughts on the Train”

Halfway through the 14 hour train ride from his parent’s home on Earth to his boarding school a few star systems over, Caleb McDaniels looks up from the homework he was meant to do over his winter break and finds himself getting lost in the sea of stars out the window.

Having traveled this route back and forth from school every few months for several years now, he was quite bored with the long trip through space, and was equally bored with the thought of doing his homework to occupy himself. 

He stares at the same stars he always sees, and just lets his mind wander.

Each year he feels like the visit home is becoming more and more of a hassle for his parents… Maybe he just won’t go home anymore, so that his return doesn’t always put them out.  Home isn’t really home anyways.

The dreary planet below, some agrarian backwater baby-Earth named QiiQ, catches Caleb’s eye as the train slowly travels past.   They still haven’t been connected to the interstellar routes, leaving anyone on the planet to be stuck where they are for their entire lives.

Caleb tries to picture what life would be like down there… how his point of view would be different if he was raised there and not on Earth, how his mindset just wouldn’t be the same.  It looks like nothing but swamps and sadness from up here… the idea of being STUCK there is hard to fathom for him.

He feels sad for the QiiQians, but he also feels like he’s just saying that to himself because he’s supposed to.  He doesn’t really care.

A frantic looking tourist with too many bags comes down the aisle towards Caleb, hungrily eying the open seat next to him.  Caleb looks away quickly so as not to seem as if he is inviting the company…

Thankfully they keep walking past, and Caleb let’s out a quiet relieved sigh.  He’s just not in the mood for forced conversation with a stranger, and they definitely looked like a talker.

While having someone to talk to would’ve given him something to do, Caleb knows he much prefers complaining to himself about being dreadfully bored rather than complaining to himself about having to talk to someone.

Cursing himself for not bringing a book (he told himself that if he brought a book he wouldn’t do his homework but he should know himself well enough to know that he wasn’t going to do the homework either way), Caleb will spend the rest of the trip unsuccessfully trying to nap.

Posted 6/12/2012

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