The Relaxing Reality-Public Transportation and it’s philosophical benefits

The Public Transportation system is home to many different stories around many different people. Even in it’s silence there is an abundance told through wandering eyes and hand-movements. The public transportation offered to the students of my University serves as a look into the world after academia.

The Public Transportation offered near university campuses are the first real exposure most of the students will get to real world economic strife. It is no secret that for the most part students at a university level have been sheltered from the reality of economic hardship. The public transportation system is open to all and the majority of the passengers who are using it are under need-based circumstances. The single mother working to support her children, the Homeless man straggling in search of shelter, or the average-working man with no time for delays. These are the faces of reality, these are the faces of the real world effort to “succeed.”

The sheltered students of the academic community are only exposed to life on campus. These students have come in little to no contact with the harsh realities of the outside world. Students at a university level are on the path to establishing themselves in the world as a working part of society, however when first let free into the world they walk alone in their own uncertainty of reality. The public transportation system not only serves a a humbling factor but as a glimpse of what the society is really composed of.