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I truly do not mind sitting still in one spot for hours on end with nothing to do but read or listen to music. In fact those are three of my favorite things—music, reading, sitting. And I cherish when circumstances give me an excuse to spend my time that way, rather than worrying that I could be being more active, or productive. Because I am doing something productive—I’m going somewhere.  \n2 This sort of me time can be achieved on many forms of transportation—planes, trains, and automobiles (ones I’m not driving anyway) but the one I most enjoy is the bus. Earlier this week, at The Billfold, Ester Bloom wrote that she enjoys the bus (Megabus, to be exact) the least of all methods of transportation, ranking it below “being dragged by the hair.” That’s okay. Life, and travel preferences, are a beautiful potpourri of differences.  \n3 But I like the bus. I like the city bus—especially as opposed to the subway, how it takes you through the streets instead of below them—and I like the long distance bus. The Megabus and its ilk. The bus to me is a meditative space, a safe place, a bubble out of time and away from life that moves me gently from one place to another.  \n4 Maybe it’s because I used to live much closer to my childhood home, so the bus was the most logical and economical option. Most of my trips during college and a couple years after were shuttling between my old home and my new on that blue and yellow bus, stopping at the Love’s rest stop in Marshall, Michigan, with its odd assortment of snacks, clothing, and holographic religious posters for sale. I have to fly to visit my family now. The bus is better.  \n5 It’s cheaper. You can bring liquids. There’s no security. You just get on, and get off. The cost is more one of time (though depending where you’re going, if you factor in the time you spend getting to the airport and going through security, you  \nMississippi Academic Assessment Program—Practice Test 3  \nSession 1  \nmay end up breaking even) . And it’s time, I think, worth spending.  \n6 I don’t want to be all “modern conveniences have alienated us from the process of living” about it, but there is something about travel as a process that a wheels up, wheels down airplane ride dilutes somewhat. We can’t teleport, not yet, but if you think about it, a plane is the closest the average plebe is going to get right now. Get in a contraption, and move from one place to another much faster than you’d otherwise be able to.  \n7 Though we’re usually seated on our butts for it, going somewhere is still an act. And there’s a pace at which I can fully take in the act of going somewhere and it’s not 500 miles per hour. I guess walking would be the natural, ideal pace for that. (It just clicked with me that maybe this is why people like hiking.) But a driving pace seems a good compromise. The scenery might blur around you, but you’re still touching the ground.  \n8 There is an economic concept called Jevons Paradox that basically says: The more efficiently you are able to use aresource, the higher the demand for it will be, so more of theresource ends up being consumed, rather than saved. William Stanley Jevons was talking about natural resources—coal, specifically—but I feel like a similar paradox exists for time. The more efficiently we use our time, the more demands areplaced on our time. There’s something to be said for a forced slowdown. That’s what the bus does for me.  \n9 Far be it from me to eschew convenience—I’m hardly advocating we all spend three weeks on a ship dry heaving into the sea just to go to London. But it’s nice to take your time when it’s reasonable to do so. Because travel, to me, always feels significant. 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