Transport

Transportation by feet, better known as walking, shows the world in a different rythm. Buildings and perspectives approach and vanish slowly, while one notices small details: a noisy bird, trees in weird shapes, uncomprehensible works of art. And one wonders where everyone is heading with so much hurry, all those impatient drivers, clumsy cyclists, polluting motocycles flash around.

It must be, that life in this world accelerates in the same pace as the capacity of computer components. We tend to cram as many things as possible in one day. And somehow, that capacity increases every 24 months, as we need to keep up with the latest fashion trends, meet up with friends, make family and in-laws happy with our visiting, work out on machines and music we don't like. And the same goes for multitasking, that capacity also doubles every 24 months: doing the laundry while chatting with acquaintances, writing a long e-mail to an overseas friends lost in the backpack tracks of Thailand, explaining an aunt over the phone how to get here from the station and asking a studying colleague who combines partime work, motherhood, and a business course by sms/text how her exam did go.

So I take a breath, put on a pair of shoes, close the door and get lost in the whole wide world. My thoughts wander with me as leave the daily pettiness behind. I even notice the sky and all I worry about is whether that darkish grey cloud will move in my direction and release its humid burden at that instant.