Knockin' the Train (Sound Blog- Stephanie Gutierrez)

I've taken the train for a little over a year now and I was kind of nervous at first because I didn't know what kind of people were going to be there or where to sit or where to get off the train or know what stop you're at, etc. Normal things I think people would be nervous about when boarding a train for the first time, alone and my first day of college and first day of taking the train happened on the same day so I was just over flooded with nerves. But now that I am in the middle of my second year of college, everything is more routine than nerves.
I recorded this clip while on the train because it gives off the sound of the train horn, the feel or atmosphere inside a cart, and how noisy it is because of all the different knocks and jumps going on. I never really noticed until a few days ago that taking the train is kind of like life. Going into something new, you're nervous because you don't know what to expect because you've never done it before. You're nervous about the people or the atmosphere or whether you're going to make a mistake, it all applies to life. While sitting in my seat, I am cold and tired and I do not want to go to school. But as i'm sitting in the silence, I take notice of all of the sounds that I hear everyday while taking the train and realize that we all, in a way, hear these sounds too. The train moving is us walking through, the horn is us communicating with others, we are suppose to keep on the tracks and stay there, just like us we have plans and different places that we need to go but we need to, in a way, stay on track. The noises you mostly hear in this clip are from the knocks and bumps the train makes hitting the tracks at certain points or edges and sometimes cause us passengers to jump a little. But as you may notice, yeah we hit a lot of bumps and things get a little crazy for a second, but then everything is fine afterwards. We don't explode, the whole world doesn't come crashing down, we are all fine after those crazy knocks and bump in our tracks. I just thought that that really applied to me in life, especially right now, and to all of us, I believe. Yeah I take the train everyday and it gets me from point A to point B but the road to my destination always gets just a little crazy but enough to make me realize that everything is fine afterwards and I continue on with my life and get off at my stop. This theory really hit me (like a train) one day and it just really shocked me how I can relate my life to taking the train, even though it sounds a little odd.