Travel is a great antidote of ADHD. Tonight I travel from Hyderabad to Banglore in a bus.
People ask me why I didnt take a plane. Am I cheap? Maybe :) But in reality, and I speak with several years of travelling alone, the experience is like no other. A train or a bus bring you so close to the road with no need to concentrate on keeping the damn vehicle going.
I sit still in my comfortable semi-sleeper chair and compose this post listening to a few music videos on the side. Its not pitch black outside even though there are no street lights on the road since the occasional village houses on the road keep their porch (?)lights on at night.
The road seems so much nicer than the city. As the bus rolled in through the bylanes of Hyderabad, to miserably attempt to fill the seats with any tom-dick-and-harry with enough cash (some probabaly didnt even want to go to banglore), you see dogs and men sleeping on the same pavement. Yes, nothing new, nothing novel. But that is why the road seems so much nicer. You dont see this misery on the open expanse of the road. Even if you do, it passes by so quickly, that you hardly get any time to register it.
What you see is a lot of green and a lot of freshness of the shrubbery. And what you sit in is a well air conditioned cabin from which to observe it. Who wouldn't enjoy it?
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