Redline vs. Greenline
5 05 2008So I always post on Mondays, around 12ish, from my fave coffee shop. So what?
It is time for more of Lys’s insightful observations. Yesterday, even though it was a good day, I was terribly down. There are many reasons, some which I won’t even admit to myself. Anyways, I was coming back from 
Central, on the Redline, and I noticed how many people riding back looked as miserable as I did. I saw two different women crying, and everyone just seemed to be lost in their own tired and negative thoughts. Maybe the stress of Cambridge, with Harvard and MIT right there, is too much for the fragile human psyche to handle. As I looked around the train, no one was making eye contact, and shoes, fingernails, and blank space were very popular.
I get off at Park Street and switch to the Greenline, and the tone is much more peppy. The train fills up with tired but happy students for BU and BC, and people are actually laughing! I am trying to maintain a level of melancholy, but it is difficult with all these wise-ass students around. What is the difference in mood between Harvard/MIT students and BU/BC students? Less pressure? More reserved? I don’t know, but I seem to transverse between the two.
