To a new horizon (his version)

I am waiting here on platform three, at central station, amid sounds of children laughing, the continuous voice of the station announcer, the roar of the traffic and the smell of fast food outlets. There are many things going on around me, social interactions of groups of people getting ready to go to school and work, a group of teenagers bullying a smaller child and a girl looking very nervous, sitting by herself, her eyes …

…have begun the most important journey of my life and I have no one to rely on besides my own self willpower and motivation. I hear the train begin to depart on its journey back to Sydney. I look around at my new surroundings and take a deep breathe before heading out the turnstiles to my new beginnings as an apprentice electrician and I am no longer worried about my life only full of excitement.