Tunnel

What do we say, feel and understand about tunnels? In some way, it gives me feelings of claustrophobia. It also reminds me of the 1996 movie Daylight where an explosion happened inside a New Jersey Tunnel that trapped people inside then the frenzy carried on. And the tragic death of Lady Diana in 1997.

Tunnels can also mean connection. From the dark, the lonely, the sad, the empty that connect towards the light. It is like a soft call or a subtle way to get to the other side of trouble. A metaphor for breaking free. Like death and rebirth. A beginning and an end. An end can never come if it wasn’t begun. Just like grief, unfortunately, there isn’t a shortcut and the only way to get past it is through it.

A friend who came out from a near-death experience recounts going through abysmal darkness where the far end of it appears to be a ray of light. Going through the dark tunnel, she heard voices similar to cries of despair and anguish. In my mind, it was like how purgatory was described in my earlier exposure to religion. She continues; the one strong force that brought her back to her body was the cries of her young children. For she felt deeply seduced by the light and the closer she gets there, the lighter she floats. The pain in her heart slowly transformed to release…

Physicists and Scientists have a new term though referring to “tunneling” as an escape by the electrons where…