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> The commuting routine, even if it's a nightmare, offers a sense of normalcy that most people have gotten used to and in a weird way rely on for grounding. Yo
by zabzonk 6y ago
> The commuting routine, even if it's a nightmare, offers a sense of normalcy that most people have gotten used to and in a weird way rely on for grounding.
You have obviously never been on the Tube at rush-hour in London. All it offers is a sense of stress and anger.
- mrcartmenez 6y agoWeirdly grounding stress and anger
- nine_k 6y agoUndergrounding, even. The 25 minutes of commute in NYC subway, even packed (but not London-packed, though) are my 25 minutes of uninterrupted reading, or thinking, or otherwise being alone and on my own, paradoxically. I miss it.
- ameister14 6y agoI don't miss shoving myself into a q train to stand there with no excess space for 40 minutes despite the fact that I got through a lot of podcasts that way. Especially in winter, where everyone is wearing jackets, the train gets super hot and you're just sweating next to some guy who won't take his damn backpack off. Oh, train traffic ahead. Great - now my commute's an hour. I do miss the view in the morning and evening crossing the Manhattan bridge, though. That was nice.
- Aeolun 6y agoI can only speak for myself, but I miss my sense of stress and anger. Any time I go to the office I hate it because I’m extra stressed out about sick people being on the train, but I cannot deny it gives a sense of normalcy to life that is otherwise entirely missing.
- plutonorm 6y agoinstitutionalised