Capturing the Commute
Any regular commute can get boring. As the routine sets in, familiarity can mute beautiful structures & scenes in the world. I've been making an effort to look up from my bike more & see the otherwise mundane sights on my commute to & from work as something special & awesome.
I ride past this building every day & when the sun hits it at just the right angle, it looks stunning & surreal. This big, leafy building towering above Sydney.
Depending on the time I leave work, I’m either the only one at this intersection or I’m amongst a queue of cyclists (this is the most I ever see it this long). I’m lucky my commute is relatively light in traffic. If I had to go through Kent St, I’d be pretty stressed with all those cyclists. And the stress comes from the terrible cycling infrastructure Sydney has: short green lights for cyclists, narrow bicycle lanes & limited cycling routes; leading to feeling pressured to skirt the road rules as a workaround to the terrible infrastructure.
This alley has been under construction recently. They've blocked it off to everyone but residents of the apartment building on the right. I noticed one day that they've strung up these colourful fixtures above the thoroughfare. In the background, you can see the cranes of construction building Sydney.
And this is home. We have little-to-no clutter. A couch, a bean bag & a chair takes care of sitting. A coffee table takes care of beverages & laptops. And another table houses the tv. Anything personal we own, we keep in our rooms. It means that if we don't have the space to store it, then don't have it. Clutter in the shared space is kept incredibly low.
“The routine is the enemy of time.”
All these thoughts about commuting made me think of how it can speed up the passage of time. It made me think of this video & reminded me of the times I travelled for long stretches of time & how new it all felt. It's made me feel like doing it all over again.
