the bus

I ride the bus everyday 4 times a day so i evidently run into the same people all the time. We dont even know each other or about each other but we ride the bus together everyday or every couple of days at least. I am sure that just like I notice and remember people others remember me. We don't really impact each others live's that much, we just share a bus ride together. A while back this lady got on the Commuter south bus and was on the phone talking about his son's gf and how she is from Mexico and her name is Alicia and she is such a nice girl. She talked about her, i don't know how to explain it but like...she is nice but she is foreign and poor thing knows nothing about the world...kind of way, u know? It is hard to say if this is true or not but then the lady went on to talk about how her family was becoming so international and how cool it was bc her daughter was dating someone european and her son a mexican girl blah blah, they funny thing is that I remember this conversation vividly and it must have happened a month ago or more. Today I get on the bus and a seat close to me I hear the same voice talking about Alicia the mexican girl, it was the lady!!! her son now wants her to go to mexico during april because he is going to propose to Alicia and wants her to be there. How unusual is this! suddenly I felt part of her life, even though I dont know her and probably wouldnt like her, and she obviously doesnt know me...but i knew who she was referring to, I knew something about her life!
and then this cute couple was standing at the front of the bus, they reminded me so much of two people i know. The girl was this silly goofy fun short girl who looked madly in love whenever she looked up at her boyfriend. The boy was this easy going pale as can be talkative sweet boy who stared at his girlfriend like she was the most gorgeous wonderful person on earth. As the got off the bus and walked away they kissed each other's hands with such care, almost as if thanking each other for being alive and for finding each other. It was like a movie, it was like I could really relate to that and I am so lucky for that.
I keep seeing snapple signs everywhere my mission tomorrow is to buy peach snapple and drink it!