Riding a bus...part 1...

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Riding a Bus
March 11th

I was on my way back to my college from my hometown. It was a journey that takes about eight hours riding a bus. Never in my whole life would I imagine that I will have to get myself use of riding bus as I have travel sickness. Now almost every three months or less I will ride a bus home and back to the hostel. Fun, but sometimes boring…yeah having to ride a bus alone with none of the other passengers that you know of…
I usually take a night trip as of course I can sleep along the way (it is nice to see the view but if you have travel sickness, it is better to take a pill and sleep.).

Today I went for a day trip (9.15a.m. as we were supposed to be departed but at almost 10.00a.m. then the bus arrived at the terminal…)
Waiting alone at the bus stand was excruciating as the bus was late. Taken my pill already half an hour before 9.15a.m I felt that I will dosed off any moment. Few are here, the passengers.

Suddenly while waiting like a rock, I heard a sharp voice arguing about the lateness of the bus. It was a man, about 30 plus something, asking angrily at the woman at the counter from which he bought his ticket from. He was in a hurry to somewhere and he somehow can not tolerate with unpunctuality. He is quite an interesting character for me as I have two part of him in my head as I am thinking, negative side and positive side…

Positive
He is a person that appreciate time
Busy person (business/meeting/ urgent cases??)
Well spoken for his rights

Negative
Rude
Annoying
Provoker
Intolerable (he should consider the traffic, the situation of the bus itself)
Just have nothing to do and find some problems with the ticket seller.

Ok, I am not being bias here. The negative points may over weight the positive points but still I am trying to be neutral.

Have you realised something??
Have you?
Or haven’t?

This story has one aspect that I really want to stress on.
Reflect back at the positive and negative points that I given.
I said that I want to be neutral, yes it true but in being neutral we as human are also being sensitive. So in a result the one that hit us the hardest is when somebody is being rude. It is kind of natural instinct for us to see more of the bad side of that person. Realise that when we did something wrong everyone will take it for serious and may not be able to forget it and become a cocoon to their mind. This as whenever we face them they will always take cautious, remembering what we done wrong previously. But if we did something good, yes it maybe well known to the other for a moment or two and always ended with nothing as they forgot about it.
Simply state here, do wrong we will remember it forever and do right or good we will celebrate it and forget it…
So in my mind right now the voice and the rude behavior somehow affect my memory of this poor guy.
As I am been having this, I do see others have it to.
“Take cautious, take cautious, take cautious” what we keep telling ourselves in realisation or not.

So what that I do to myself is to always try to remember the good side of the person as well and accept that we human are not perfect at all.

That part one of in riding a bus.