Making the Best of a 1-hr Commute
Also adapted & published on Medium . Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash Let’s start with some quick math. 50 minutes twice a day is 100 minutes per day, which is 500 minutes a week, and 26000 minutes in a year. 433 hours is roughly the amount of time I spend in a year commuting to and from work. Sure, taking into some reduction when I’m in a different city with a shorter commute — 20 minutes each way — and also my vacation time, it’s still about 315 hours or 13 days a year spent on a train or bus getting to and back from work. Time is valuable, whether you use it to get some work done, “me” time, napping is totally up to you. But I think of these 13 days quite as additional time in my everyday life, 100 minutes I’ll never get back, and choose to make the best of it. Mass transit being my chosen method of commute — I am talking of trains and buses running within cities, not those the suburban ones — for nearly a decade now, I’ve come to es