I thought this blog post was pretty refreshing and kind of a nice way to look at things. It starts:
When people hear that I spend two hours each way commuting to UBC from Surrey every day, the most common question is: but why? When the train broke down today, and it took over three hours to get to UBC, I was asking myself the same thing. I made a list to remind myself why commuting is good.
Anyway, read the list by following this link.
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