THE LAST PERSON OFF THE TRAIN
All journeys can be enjoyable, even the commute. The way to nullify pain and multiply pleasure with any given form of travel is to let everybody else leave the train, bus, plane, car, tram or camel first. In other words, be the last one off your given mode of transport. This turns the journey into a form of destination and can lower your heart rate by 37% before you hot-foot off to wherever you’re meant to be next, which is never quite as much of a hurry as you assume. If rush hour had pedestrian speed limits and we were all wired up to a giant pacemaker, the hour itself would only last 52 minutes, leaving 8 minutes to put your immediate world to rights. Some may think this idealist, and they’d be right. But if idealism took root, as everyone would deeply love it to, we’d end up upset as we’d have nothing to whinge about. Now I’m confused.
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