There's always another bus.

It could have been that I just left yoga class and was relaxed and happy. I could have been that I'm totally engrossed in Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (a wonderfully written book that makes me want to drop everything and travel). I'm not sure what it was but I had a Zen moment yesterday. A moment I need to relish in more often now that my work is so consuming and I feel so busy all the time.

Yesterday, as I walked to the bus stop after work I saw one of two buses I can take home waiting at my stop about a block away. I didn't feel like rushing after the bus so I said to myself "if I get there and it's still there, great, if not, there's always another bus." As I got about 20 feet from the door, the bus began to pull away. Just then I also saw another woman running after the bus, but it still kept pulling away. The bus got caught at a red light, so the determined woman went out into traffic, knocked on the door, but the bus still drove away, leaving the woman in the road....and angry. Five minutes later, as my philosophy proved true, another bus arrived, this time, the better bus because it drops me off right in front of my house (I have to walk a couple of blocks home with the other bus..yeah, I'm lazy). I walk on, find a seat, get out my book and begin reading. Happy I don't have to drive in rush hour traffic. Well, angry lady who was denied the other bus immediately begins yelling at the unassuming bus driver about how "this is a transportation service and how can you transport if you don't pick up anyone who isn't convenient to you...can you call the Calgary Transit office and report Mr. Evil 112 Bus???!!!?!" I smile and think, "wow, it must be really difficult to be a bus driver and really difficult to be that woman."

Because it was 5.30 on a Wednesday night, traffic was really terrible, backed up the whole way home and wouldn't you know it, we passed that bus who passed us up earlier. I actually got home earlier by waiting for the next bus. So when life give you lemons and it seems pretty tough, remember there will always be another bus.