the only thing i like about being on public transport (especially train) during the morning and evening rush hours is that you get to study people up close, beyond their comfort zone. You can scrutinize people's noses, eyelashes, watches etc, and then look away nonchalantly if they turn to look at you. Or cough uncomfortably and act as if you're really upset that you're being squished against the train door.

And sometimes funny things happen, like really fat people thinking they're really skinny and trying to squash themselves up against you so they can make it in this train and not have to wait for the next, or some lady with her long hair tied up in a pony tail comes in and stands in front of you and keeps swishing her hair in your face, or well... something along those lines.

sometimes i close my eyes and imagine i'm somewhere else-

like on the beach in Tioman, or Bali, or lying on the grass in Hyde park. something along those lines.

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the way i try to suppress a thought/try to make myself refrain from thinking about somewhere/some person/something, is i imagine/visualise the thing/place/person/concept in my head, and then i superimpose a huge red bold cross over it, many many times.

Helps as much as 'don't think about a white polar bear' to suppress the image of a white polar bear in your head, but,

doesn't stop me from trying.