I always end up here

Going eastbound on Main, before getting downtown, there’s a mural of a robot, resting outside with the words, “In all my endless treks across the universe, I always return here”
I see this mural when I’m on the bus. Public transit can be a lonely space, despite being around so many people, but this mural makes me feel connected to those around me. There is something vulnerable about it.
Too often, we forget we are all vulnerable. This feeling of invulnerability feeds our individualism. This mural seems to be acknowledging the robot’s vulnerability to a place it calls home- it can’t detach itself from this place.
Despite portraying. Robot, this mural reminds me to be soft and warm in a world that wants me to be hard and cold. There is something in the robot that is more human than we often let ourselves be- it admits its vulnerability.