Train Exploration
Though well-expanded with an underground net and seemly goes into a certain direction, metro system in NYC may suddenly stop for train traffic while your employer is non-stop calling you for modifying a crisis statement generated from an unexpected storm blown online, change its routine for construction while your stomach is protesting you for food supplements. Simply and roughly, there are just several words you can never find in the book of MTA discipline— Regular, Clean, Cheap.
But still, no matter how unsatisfied we are, we can’t live without it in busy New York.
Approximately, the time I spend on train daily is great enough for me to meet a guy with not fancy line-up in a shaking carriage. Couple minutes later, we may already know our mutual friends, similar neighbors, and change our numbers for a possible dinner after work. Well, that’s not always the case, I have to admit. Not because of the unlikely-happen too fast process, or my less make-up that completely ungently shows up what I gained from days of drink. You just hardly can find one as bored as you are on the train with rotating his eyeballs for searching round and round. Everybody has a task on hand.
With the emphasis on the development of personal management, campus starts to open classes on time management in build of students’ and future elites’ capabilities on coping multi-tasks with limited time—24h. Besides daily must-do issues, eating, sleeping, and sometimes laundry, we fragment our time through various ways, like on our way from one place to another, which you will notice actually takes great part of our day once if you pick it up back into whole again. In New York, a never stop city, you always can find people on train either holding a book reading or putting a headphone swaying with uncatchable rhythm. Are you one of them? Trying so hard to race with time and amplify your daily accomplishments.
However, while you are focusing on how to wisely use up time on train, something unexpected, may be positive or mood-killer, is missing from your lower head and Jay-Z music. Talented artists can light up your day with newly produced piece. Celebrity will share the same carriage with you, if you are lucky enough as I am. Or just when you put your head up, your eyes will unconsciously catch someone’s that are also looking back at yours. Magic starts from then.
It’s fair once you choose one side, there’s another will be missed out. The problem is how you balance which one is the better option. Most of us go to work or school at a certain time, with last-night collected energy to get on train, and back home with no much surprise day by day.
Do you ever think about live your life in another way? I’m not talking about quitting your job recklessly, though that’s what now majority Chinese youth adore into, throw what you have behind to start a totally brand new life from bottom to top. Yes, occasionally changing your hairstyle is quite appealing. I’m saying to put a little alteration in your daily regular plan. Don’t have to always tie yourself up into a stressful condition.
Considering your way to work or back home is an exploring trip that your can predict nothing about what will happen or who you will meet on the train. Simply free yourself, and release your mind with a pair of curious eyes and open mind to whatever around you. It may be regarded as a waste of time to those practical principle holding men. But who knows. Sometimes, unhappened may open you a window to take a look at another world.
So pack yourself up, buy a ticket, and if you lucky enough, get a good spot during rush hours, no popcorn served unfortunately. Most of all, be ready for whatever come!
