Slow life seems to be a luxury, but slowing down is the only way to really feel life.
To experience the atmosphere of a city, taking public transportation is the most suitable. Public transportation is the best way to experience the slow life of the city.
This is a fast growing city, where people start walking at six in the morning. That was the reason I fell in love with the city, because it was busy and it kept me pushing myself up. Because of the busyness, the city is alive and well, and the people here will be alive and well too.
When you arrive at a new place, the best way to recognize the way is to rely on public transportation, except for walking.
The subway is convenient, you say.
Yes, the subway is fast, and it whizzes right to the destination. But the closed space, can only see a lifeless, labeled with the name of each station line. Listening to the train radio over and over again in Chinese, English and Cantonese reminders of the arrival of the station. In addition, there is a crowd of people in the carriages. Everyone is looking down at their cell phones.
The subway doesn't get stuck in traffic, it doesn't run late. But in the subway, I never know what a city looks like.
You said that the taxi is very fast.
Yes, a taxi is a stop-and-go, point-to-point ride. The driver will be able to take you through the streets and alleys of the city, no matter if it is a free time or a morning or evening rush hour. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on the price of the car, and then you'll be able to get it back.
But how many of those who take a taxi don't have anything to worry about? Who has the heart to see the scenery?
So, take the bus, the city in the real presentation in front of the eyes.
The bus is very slow, every station to wait a moment, queuing into the station. You have to stop at every stop and get on and off.
The bus shook so much that you couldn't settle down to read a book or look at your cell phone, you could only look out the window.
Although it is also a fixed line, fixed departure time, unlike the subway, in the bus there is time to look out the window.
In this city life for eight years, eight years time, although also been to the city a lot of places, the number of times to take the bus but only a few. After eight years of living in a hurry, I recently started taking public transportation.
Taking public transportation is another kind of delayed gratification
Unlike a taxi that stops at the drop of a hat, or a subway that arrives on time. Buses are always arrogant and require us to walk or wait a bit to accommodate them. But as a basic form of transportation in the city, this doesn't detract from the love that most people have for public transit. After all, not all the subway can reach the very quiet alley, not everyone has an urgent need to rent a trip.
Recently, I often think about the idea of delayed gratification. The most famous experiment is the marshmallow experiment. The most famous experiment is the marshmallow experiment. A group of children were tracked for more than ten years to see if they could tolerate not enjoying marshmallows for a while. The people who were able to delay gratification were more likely to be successful.
So take a few extra steps and wait a little longer. You don't have to think about getting everywhere instantly, and enjoy the pleasure of taking a few more steps and the peace and quiet of a few moments later. Maybe life will be a different story.
The bus is not as stable as the subway, and the brakes and turns that can happen at any time make it impossible to focus on your own world, whether it's reading a book or looking at your phone.
Unlike the subway, where everyone has their head in the palm of a screen. On public transit, it's possible to slow down time and take a good amount of time to look at the city outside the window.
Is not living for a long time, have not found, those far from the commercial center of the residential area, have a charm. Pushing the mother of the baby carriage, shaking the fan of the elderly, picking the square dance of the aunt. The music from the stores faintly filled the car through the windows. Outside the sun from the right side of the carriage slowly turned the direction.
Is not living for a long time, have not realized that the city is also different from their own familiar another model. Used to the crowded and hurried subway, used to drilling from the ground to the underground, and back to another ground. The city that breathes this same air every day can be felt by taking public transportation.
As the sunlight slowly fades outside the bus window, the lights come on. Street signs slowly light up, neon lights flashing on the city's skyscrapers. These views from dark to light are not something that can be observed by riding the subway.
If the subway is just too far out of reach, if you're not in such a hurry. Why not slow down and enjoy some bus time.