Now in one of my previous stories I stated that listening to music in a car is the best location to listen to music, due to its freedom to listen to pretty much anything you want.  That all changes however as soon as you hit traffic.

If you’re viewing music as an escape, it’s important to listen to music in times of stress or fear or worry anything of the sort. but you can’t use music to escape. when you’re sitting in traffic. Traffic is this unified hatred towards the commute where everyone is in a bad mood as soon as you get into it especially when you first get into traffic which then escalates depending on how long you have been said traffic, and God forbid you think about how much longer you will be in traffic. This is why I believe that traffic is the worst place to listen to music because your mind will never stop focusing on being in traffic and the negativity towards that. The next time you’re sitting in traffic for a large amount of time try listening to some of your most favorite songs, you will notice that even though you’re listening to your all-time favourites, you have this negativity packed on with it simply because you’re sitting in traffic and then it sullies the listening experience.

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I think it’s important as soon as you get into traffic to stop listening to music and turn on something like say a podcast which is in a similar vein as music when driving but a podcast allows you to put your focus into say a conversation rather than the enjoyment of music because podcasts are more analytical when music is more art. and then I think it’s smart too as soon as you get out of traffic transition into listening to music because the music will sound so much better to you because you’re in a better mood because you just got out of traffic.

Or if all else fails, when you’re in traffic start listening to heavy metal or really angry music so you can just wallow in self-pity as you sit on the port Mann bridge for another 20 minutes before you even entered coquitlam.