Highways hurt!!

I wonder what it is about highways that makes people compare them to their own lives?

Is it the long winding routes, sometimes broad, sometimes narrow, sometimes smooth, sometimes(and in mumbai, MOST times) bumpy, sometimes straight, sometimes winding?

Is it the fact that these routes take you to places that you had read and heard about before, but never actually seen , and hence, experienced before? Places which look and feel so different than you had imagined them to be?

Is it because every time you come to a fork in the road and you choose one road, you wonder where you would have been had you taken the other route?

Is it the fact you go through your journey knowing the person next to you well, the other people in the bus lesser, and the assorted other humanity(like drivers, salesmen, etc.) not at all?

The fact that taking a U turn is not allowed in the fast lane?

The fact that the highways are ONLY THE MEANS to get from one place to the other, and hence just the transit, and NOT the destination?

I wonder..