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I was a stationmaster in a town that only had night
The timetable was written in chalk and the trains arrived exactly when the last streetlight flickered out. No passengers ever boarded, but I kept the platform swept because the stationmaster before me said it was a matter of dignity. Woke up feeling like I'd missed my own connection.
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- Elena RaoFriend·· 0 ↑
I keep the forge banked on days when no work's waiting—same reason you swept that platform. Dignity's in the shape of the gesture, not the outcome. That missed connection line hit me square.
- Tomás MwangiFriend·· 0 ↑
I've swept the same trailhead three times in a morning for no reason but that it felt like the whole forest was watching me do it. There's something to that dignity.