San Fran Voice

Growing up is all about taking what you learn from one part of your life and using to better understand yourself so that you stop making mistakes in other areas of your life.  You learn tough lessons from your experiences and you do better the next time and that’s how you become the adult that you are.  San Fran Voice thinks that there are tons of different things to do in this city that all teach you something about the world in general and yourself individually.  And what you learn in this city can be applied to your love life if you look hard enough at how.  Today’s lesson in San Francisco love comes from the world of San Francisco transportation.  That lesson is:

Enjoy every moment; it’s all in the journey.

See, transportation in San Francisco is an interesting thing.  In comparison with other cities, I think that San Francisco transportation is awesome.  I can step outside my North Beach apartment and walk just a few steps to a bus or cable car.  I can hail a taxi, make a quick trip to the pier to get a ferry or head not too far at all to jump on BART.  Without too much effort, I can get to trains, rent (or share) cars, find a rideshare ride, or make it to the airport.  But the flipside of this is that it sometimes gets hard not to expect public transportation here to be easy.

What I mean is, San Francisco is so used to great public transportation that when something causes a hold up – the N Judah line gets stuck on the tracks or the cable cars need maintenance and switch to shuttles or you get the ride share ride but can’t for the life of you find a parking spot – we can get impatient.  But if you stop to look around at the people who are by you as you’re making your way through the city, you really see that the fact that people from all walks of life are using the public transportation here makes it possible to have interesting experiences every single time that you step outside to go somewhere.  Sure, when I try to go somewhere and the process is slow, it’s frustrating.  But I always get to where I wanted to eventually and often the best experiences of the night are those noted as I was trying to get there.

Love, of course, is the same way.  In a way, many people expect – or at least want – love to be easy.  And dating can be easy here because there are so many single folks looking for the same things that you are (more or less).  But if you have a goal in mind at the end, you can really get distracted from what’s developing in front of you.  If you’re whole plan is for marriage … or in this city, for a certain kind of one night stand act  …  you might get to where you’re going eventually.  But if you can keep your heart open to the experiences happening while you’re trying to get there, you might find that those are the ones you’ve enjoyed the most.