What do you usually do during a commute by train Either as a student or as a worker, I assume most of you commute by train, which means you take the same train at the same time every morning. This is also one of my assumptions but I'm pretty sure that most of you have had a crash on somebody who take the same train as yours. Actually so have I, let me tell you one story based on my experience. When I was a high school student, I always took the train that starts at 8:15 in the morning, and there was the girl whom I had a crash on. She was older than me, and always in business suit. She was gorgeous, stunning and looked very sophisticated therefore she was like beyond my reach. As for me, in school's uniform so I couldn't have a nerve to start talking to her. Besides, it was inside the train so if I did that, there would be loads of eyes on me. So I had been doing nothing but just wondering what kind of person she is, and what kind of situation would be the best for us to get to know each other. this lasted for a very long time. But months later, something very serendipitous happened. One day after hanging out with friends of mine until the last train, I took off the last train walking towards a bicycle-parking lot. And I recognized that the person walking ahead of me was her! I was both extremely excited and nervous. Because it was almost midnight so she would probably regard me as a sort of pervert stranger if I suddenly tried to talk from behind her. I was thinking thinking thinking, then in the next moment, she accidentally tipped over the bicycle next to hers when she tried to ride. I was like, "Thank God! This is the opportunity!" I naturally approached her pretending I hadn't even recognized her and said, " Are you ok?" Then she was like, " Thank you. Oh, are you..?" She seemed like she also recognized me so we smoothly started the conversation. Happily, we ended up swapping our number and few months later, we got together in the end. These days, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that every single person keep using their smart phone during the commute. I'm also one of them either listening to music or checking SNS or studying English. On the one hand I make the most of my commute effectively thanks to the innovation, on the other hand I can't help feeling like the opportunity to encounter somebody who might be very important to your life is astonishingly decreasing. Sometimes it might be fresh and good not to use your phone and bolster yourself up to talk to your crash.