Travel - A quick look !

You start the day by taking bath, wearing clothes, having food, travel to office, work, travel back to home, watch tv and sleep. If you see these activities they are day-to-day ones which cannot be avoided. In all these activities travel is one activity which has taken considerable time from our life which needs some attention.

From the time we started to go to school until now on all days we all have traveled. Starting from school days until now if I had to calculate total time I had traveled by taking 2 hours a day for travel it would come around,

school - 170 days * 12 years * 2 hours -> 4080 hrs -> 170 days(6 months approx.) - after calculating this looks funny... 170 days I have traveled which is equivalent to 1 extra year of studying school :-).

college - 4 years * 220 days * 2 hours -> 1760 hrs -> 73 days(2.5 months)

work - 7 years * 240 days * 2 hours -> 3360 hrs -> 140 days(4.5 months)

It is totally 13 months of travel in my life time until now. Or else we can say like I have wasted more than a year of my life by just traveling in Chennai roads. Is it ok to waste your life time in travel ?.  If you say its ok, then, think of years until you retire(say u work for 55 years, then, 25 more years * 240 days * 2 hours -> 12000 hours -> 500 days -> 17 months). So totally it will come around 2.5 yrs(13 + 17 months).

On considering the above calculation, which would be wise solution for us,

1. Join a school which is in your locality ?(may be our kids can benefit)

2. Join a college which is in your locality ?(i guess this is highly impossible given the urban setup.... solution can be staying in college hostel)

3. Join a office which is in your locality ?(given changing times and uncertainty of staying in single job makes this difficult).

4. Travel anyway. Reduce the travel by 1/4th of the time you travel now. This can be achieved only if our infrastructure improves exponentially. Like having good subway/mrts train connectivity in cities, having good roads, etc.. Hope, this happens.

Karthik B.