You wake up in the morning looking forward to the very first day of not having to study. And you stay in bed a while longer and leave home when it's a little too late to take the bus - the one that takes you to the bus station, so you decide to take a cab and you reach the bus station to fight with the driver over the fare, the one that HE thinks is fair but YOU know is not. And you keep arguing over what is fair and what is unfair, until you decide to throw him the money and leave, just to realize that you've missed the bus!!
Then you take another bus and wait, with your fury rising and the curses coming out rapidly under your breath. You're thinking how people can be so unethical and why everyone wants more than his right. And you're also thinking why oh WHY on earth your day is starting that badly when you haven't done anything to deserve it; and you've just finished your year-long diploma and feeling free as a bird. Why are such stupid events ruining your morning?
Your eyes water as the driver starts the bus, and your tears silently fall as it starts moving. You cry silently for a while, feeling fragile and silly...
Midway through the short trip, your tears dry and you look ahead to see why the traffic is slow that early in the morning.... A few minutes pass and you come to the reason why cars are slowing down. A car accident, a big one. People are gathered over a body. They are anxious. You're not sure what happened, for the road is clearer now and the bus starts speeding away.
Was that person dead? was he injured? slightly hurt? just in shock from the accident? You don't know. And you never will, coz you and the bus and everyone in it have moved on. But you realize something, someone else's day has started much worse than yours, much much worse; and he too believes he didn't do anything to deserve it. But it happened anyways, because things like this happen everyday, to all of us.
You feel ashamed for cursing your trivial "bad luck", and you decide to thank God for how your day has started, and thank Him in advance for how it will go...
Then you take another bus and wait, with your fury rising and the curses coming out rapidly under your breath. You're thinking how people can be so unethical and why everyone wants more than his right. And you're also thinking why oh WHY on earth your day is starting that badly when you haven't done anything to deserve it; and you've just finished your year-long diploma and feeling free as a bird. Why are such stupid events ruining your morning?
Your eyes water as the driver starts the bus, and your tears silently fall as it starts moving. You cry silently for a while, feeling fragile and silly...
Midway through the short trip, your tears dry and you look ahead to see why the traffic is slow that early in the morning.... A few minutes pass and you come to the reason why cars are slowing down. A car accident, a big one. People are gathered over a body. They are anxious. You're not sure what happened, for the road is clearer now and the bus starts speeding away.
Was that person dead? was he injured? slightly hurt? just in shock from the accident? You don't know. And you never will, coz you and the bus and everyone in it have moved on. But you realize something, someone else's day has started much worse than yours, much much worse; and he too believes he didn't do anything to deserve it. But it happened anyways, because things like this happen everyday, to all of us.
You feel ashamed for cursing your trivial "bad luck", and you decide to thank God for how your day has started, and thank Him in advance for how it will go...
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