5 Freakishly awesome reasons to make you love your commute
Mind games to be ok about commuting
Aren’t you just tired of listening to complaints about commuting? People don’t know how lucky they are to be able to commute. Ok maybe lucky is stretching it. But I’m here to make you feel ok about your commute! Hell yeah! What’s better than “Ok”? So now let’s see these reasons:
1. It’s YOUR time
Nobody can expect anything from you during your commute. Not your boss, not your family, not friends. Anybody asks anything, you say “stuck in traffic”. They have no comeback. During this time, you listen, you observe, you smile, or you yell at others and vent. It’s YOUR time.
2. You get to complain about it
You go to work and you come back, you get to act tired and frustrated. Everybody will understand to an extent about you being in a bit of a funk. If you live with kind people, they might even make you a beverage. If you lived right next to the office, you would have to offer other commuters a beverage. Who wants that?
3. Everybody respects a good commute
Bring up the 405 or your favorite highway at a party, and you’ll easily end up spending a long time complaining about traffic. The longest commuter even gets a lot of respect. Nobody will say “You commute 1.5 hours? Are you crazy?”. They might say “Oh man that’s a long commute, how do you do it?”. And you get to share your story. Everybody respects a good commute.
4. Commuting as a ritual
A morning commuting ritual grounds you in the day. It gives that buffer to transition into a different mode of life. And an evening commute gives you a chance to leave work behind. Even music apps have crossfade between songs, why shouldn’t you?
5. Commuting is not an imposition, it’s freedom
This reason is a bit out there but stick with me. Let’s say you weren’t a very nice person and you were incarcerated for a couple of decades, how would that feel? Would you prefer a night in solitary or an hour in traffic almost doing your own thing? You GET to commute, because commuting is freedom. Today you commute here, tomorrow you switch your workplace and you commute there. Today it’s an hour, tomorrow it’s only 54 minutes! If you drive a car, maybe you trade in your old one and get something different. Maybe you take a different route on the bus and see what that’s like. It’s freedom boss! And freedom is very cool, even when you dislike parts of it.
I wrote this blog while commuting to work. Otherwise I’d be at a desk, yuck!
