Train Us

"CASSIUS

The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
And bade him follow; so indeed he did.
The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it
With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
And stemming it with hearts of controversy;
But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,
Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
Is now become a god, and Cassius is
A wretched creature and must bend his body,
If Caesar carelessly but nod on him." - Julius Caesar, Shakespeare

This story, Cassius, recounts to, Brutus, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, about, Gaius Caesar's challenge to race him down the Tiber river, I thought, was particularly interesting because of the fact that I could swear that I once almost experienced the exact same story in real life during adolescence.

It was on a cloudy day after school, we were studying Tarot Cards at a friend's house. I gave my opinion on the matters of reading Tarot and gave a short talk on what they're all about since my friends were somewhat unfamiliar with them.

After talking about the Tarot for a short time at this friend's house, we then decided for the rest of the day to take a walk down the neighborhood to simply enjoy the day, walk, and chat.

During our walk that day as we were walking, I spotted a moving train next to the road, and having remembered one of my friends once telling me you can always jump on the side of a moving train by jumping onto one of the sides of it and hold on to one of the bars, I told my buddies  "Hey let's try jumping on that train like we did last time, so it can take us for a short ride down the road and then we'll jump off." and so we did, we all hopped on the side of the train and rode it for a brief distance, we then jumped off, but as I landed I accidentally hurt my ankle. I had to limp a bit for the rest of the walk. I felt as if I had disappointed my friends for having suggested to them that we ride the train, and then hurt my ankle.

After having experienced this somewhat dramatic story of failure from telling my friends to jump on the train with me, I realized that if I were to be called, Tiberius Caesar, named after the Tiber River, the same river mentioned in, Gaius Caesar's story then considering this I should actually be called "Trainus" after my train story that was similar - Trainus Caesar.