Instead of a lazy Sunday, I happened to get up early today, and take the line 4 subway. My reasons were a few. I had not travelled by subway for a long time in the last many months, using the car or taking buses. A quiet day to be spent almost silently was part of my plan(there are days I simply switch off my mobile, stay away from computer...probably that is for another post). And, finally to get to reading "eat, pray, love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. Reading books while using trains-long distance or short, has been a favourite pastime while travelling. Probably was a little nostalgic yesterday evening. Probably really wanted to get into the groove. Have hardly read anything in the last one month of being alone here! Being just too caught up at work, reaching home and then taking up books was a bit too much for me to do. Rather, relaxing with movies seemed more palatable!
"Eat, pray, love" has been in the left-in-the-middle state for a few months now.
And, on top of that, have bought quite a few books from Kyobo online.
It is high time I start checking out the list of unread books at home. So off I was to the station. And to make things a little interesting, planned to reach Itaewon, have lunch, buy some foodstuff and return. There were shorter routes to go to. But since the focus was on reading while on the subway, I decided to reach the end of Line 4( Wangsimni station) and take line transfers. Almost took 1.5 hours to reach. While going, as luck would have it I stood for almost the whole distance and could hardly read a few pages. On the way back, Wangsimni being the first station, I sat the whole distance.
About a 100 pages read, made for a very satisfying train journey!
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