This was particularly more so on the office bus commute, where one is unable to read books or newspapers because trying to do so will definitely damage one’s eyesight (since the jerky movements on the bus would require the eyes to continuously keep changing focus), and listening to music is the only option given the fact that the outside ‘scenery’ is something that one has been privy to ad nauseum.
However, I have recently come up with a new way of kicking commute’s butt and this method has two possible outcomes, both of which are win-win, should you choose to take it up. Of course, this method assumes that you are not the one in the driver’s seat, in which case, such a move is ill-advised.
On the bus, close your eyes and visualise the entire route as you keep travelling along it and get acquainted with the noises, the wait times at traffic signals as well as the bumps and miscellaneous intentional and unintentional speed breakers so that when you do end up opening your eyes and finding yourself at a place that you’d expected, you will laud yourself at having been able to discern correctly your location based on movement rather than on sight.
The other thing that might happen to you is that you end up falling asleep in the process, which is also not such a bad thing. The important thing is to keep your eyes closed, in order for this to take effect.
Sure, your prediction skills don’t really amount to much on a city bus where the bus conductor keeps shouting out the name of the next stop that the bus is approaching, but in the circumstances that you would manage to make it work, it is a really super way of killing time.
I have tried this and in most cases I end up thinking about something else with my eyes closed…so my prediction always was wrong..:-)
to each their own, I guess.
I’ve tried it too. I think I got the idea as a ‘kid’
Super fun!
great minds think alike. Heh.