From my childhood, there has been a very common paragraph that we used to memories blindly because we hadn't experienced that yet, which is "Traffic Jam" There were a few more legendary paragraphs that were taught in our education system, but right now, we have brought changes instead of rotating among a few common topics. At those times, there was no glance of traffic jams in my city; we used to hear about it as a thing in major cities like Dhaka in our country. With the name Dhaka, overpopulation, traffic jam, pollution, money, and a few more tags are included. Almost a decade has gone by. I don't need to memorize traffic jam paragraphs anymore, but I get to suffer for this every day, not in Dhaka, but in my city.
This is a normal topic, people have now gotten used to this scenario pretty well in Dhaka, but the scenes are not the same here; we have just started to suffer due to this, and this change is gonna hurt us a lot to adapt. The scenario was not like that just a year back.
Because I had to sit for half an hour in a traffic jam for a distance of almost one kilometer today. Why didn't I walk instead of sitting idle? Because I had already rented a vehicle and there was excessive heat from the sun, all the roadside trees were cut down recently just because the leader of the city wanted to make the roads clean and organized; he constructed footpaths for the people whereas the roads were wide enough and the trees used to work like a divider for the people to walk beside the road. He sits inside the car. Then how's he gonna feel the heat outside? Very poor decision from our perspective; not everyone is privileged to sit inside an air-conditioned car, not even half. Even after renting a vehicle, I had to walk to save some time. For work that should have taken half an hour at max took me two hours to return home, aren't these hours wasted? Along with the sufferings?
In Dhaka, the scenario is worse; only the people who travel from outside of the city can feel the difference because the people who are already living got used to it, with no way to escape instead of embracing it whether they like it or not. Usually, I have noticed that if I go for a day trip, almost two to three hours are wasted, that's minimum; if we travel through a few hotspot zones, this increases significantly. So many working hours are getting wasted; devoting two to three hours daily to learning an additional skill would have been way more fruitful in a time span of six months. Instead, going through these hassles, even the spare time cant be utilized properly as the body and mind are completely exhausted.
Going out during the daytime is the thing I try my best to avoid just because of this. I know ranting is not gonna help in any way to solve it, but yeah, ranting may give a little bit of relaxation for mental health.
