Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The average commute is 27 minutes.
Twice a day.
Five days a week.

Over a lifetime,
that’s years you never chose to spend.

Gone quietly.

No one thinks of commuting as life.
But it is.

It’s time you’ll never get back,
spent preparing to work
or recovering from it.

27 minutes doesn’t sound like much.
That’s the trick.

Stolen slowly,
it adds up to years
of your life in transit.

You don’t remember commutes.
They leave no memories.

Just time removed
from your life
without permission.

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