Lucrative Sides To Traffic Jams

hawkers in brisk business

In the natural scheme of things, it is easy to write off some of the little’ miracles’ some road hang-ups affords some of us and connote it with such negativity . How about some of the opportunities it lands on our laps every day without realizing, indulge me for a moment, have you at one point in time wished you were held back a bit in traffic to catch some rest?
 Have you also been so parched that you wished that the traffic wouldn’t move so you can purchase some water or cold drinks perhaps? 
If you can relate to this, then you can identify with this. In the same vein, you can pretty much sit in the comfort of your car and soliloquize without anyone thinking you are crazy, similarly, you can return calls, reply mails and messages [using hands free of course].

Traffic jams serves as a means of relaxation for commuters be it workers, students and suchlike. Particularly students take advantage of this to re jog their memories on lessons learned the day before, or perhaps some quick peek to prepare for an upcoming exam, test, or I.A. [and I have been a proud victim of this, and it helped me out just fine.

 Others who just want to while away the minute resort to browsing or surfing the web, read newspapers to acquaint themselves with what is new, in vogue, and listening to music. Also, drivers who happen to have radios in their vehicles also tune in to an Akan radio station for some comic relief.

 

time to catch up on school work.

There comes the big and obvious one, hawkers are at their money making best when there happens to be a hold up on our roads. They grasp the chance with both hands and cash in other peoples ‘plight’. The screeching of cars to succumb to the desire of traffic is like a ‘second coming’ for them, they briskly run to the windows of vehicles and beseech commuters to purchase their items and this is usually accompanied with their usual chanting of verses, sometimes totally hilarious, all in a bid to urge people to buy. For all intents and purposes, some folks do buy it since they enjoy the jingle they hear or maybe out of sheer necessity. Regardless of their motives, at the end of the day, hawkers gets rid of most of their goods and have enough money to fend for themselves and family for the night and on good days, save the rest for rainy days.

Essentially, traffic situations aren’t all doom and gloom, as individuals we are quick to judge things based on the difficulties and discomforts they offer, this usually clouds our vision in seeing the beauty of it. As individuals, I believe the imperative is to sit back, unwind and enjoy some of the free minutes we have on our hands; think about it, there is not much we can do about it. Would you rather walk? Or perhaps you might want to rain hell and brimstone and darn the consequence. However that isn’t going to make the grass any greener or cause the road to divide and pave way for you. Just relax and take it all in.

                                                            

                                                                  

                                                 

                                                        TRAFFIC IS BEAUTIFUL……