Travel time

I’ve been commuting all my life. I studied at schools that are a hours away from home and it takes me a number of different jeepney, bus and electric train rides to get to places. Even when I started working – I had to travel 3 to 4 hours to get to and from work. The daily commute is tiring, unsafe and stressful. When we got our car – the travel is less tiring, less unsafe, but sadly it was more stressful (gas prices going up and maintenance costs!). So I was hoping for a change of pace, working at home.

And now that our prayers were answered -I will be working at home – I’m beginning to miss the tiring travel that I used to endure. I will miss seeing countless strangers – bearing their multiple emotions, frustrations and dreams. Also, I’m worried about our car – we don’t want to worry about thrust bearings getting rusted because it is not used enough. So our plan is that we will have a set time for going out and traveling, both for exercise and leisure. I guess the saying is true – even for things that you feel are unnecessary, you don’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone.