Love is Like Waiting for a Bus

March 20, 2005

This is one of the best forwards I received through email. I don’t know who the original writer is. Nonetheless, read on…

You know, love is just like someone waiting for a bus. When the bus comes, you look at it and you say to yourself, “Eeee…so full….cannot sit down. I’ll wait for the next one”. So you let the bus go and waited for the second bus. Then the second bus came. As you looked at it you say, “This bus is so old…so shabby!” So you let the bus go and again, decided to wait for the next bus.

After a while another bus came. It’s not crowded, not old, but you said, “Eeee… not air-conditioned …better wait for the next one”. So again you let the bus go and decided to wait for the next bus. Then the sky started to get dark as it is getting late. You panicked and jumped immediately inside the next bus. It is not until much later that you found out that you had boarded the wrong bus! So you wasted your time and money waiting for what you want! Even if an air-conditioned bus comes, you can’t ensure that the air-conditioned bus won’t break down or whether or not the air-conditioner will be too cold for you. Wanting to get what you want is not wrong, but it wouldn’t hurt to give other people a chance, right? If you find that the “bus” doesn’t suit you, just press the red button and get off the bus! (as simple as that!)

Hey who said life is fair??? The best thing to do is be observant and open while you scrutinize the bus. If it doesn’t suit you, get off. But you must always have an extra something which you could use for the next bus that comes. But wait… I’m sure you have this experience before. You saw a bus coming (the bus you want, of course) you flagged it but the driver acted as if he did not see you and zoomed pass you! It just wasn’t meant for you.

The bottom line is, being loved is like waiting for a bus you want. Getting on the bus and appreciating the bus by giving it a chance depends totally on you. If you haven’t made any choice, WALK! Walking is like being out of love. The good side of it is you can still choose any bus you want… the rest who couldn’t afford another ride would just have to be content with the bus they rode on, ugly or not.

One more thing…. sometimes it is better to choose a bus you are already familiar with rather than gamble with a bus that is unfamiliar to you. But then again, life wouldn’t be complete without the risks involved. But there’s one bus that i forgot to tell you about – the bus that you don’t have to wait for. It will just stop on its own and will ask you to come inside and take a free ride for the rest of your life…

I received some really interesting comments regarding this email. One of them states how unfair it is to just press the stop button whenever you don’t feel like riding that bus. It is not that easy to break a relationship and leave the person behind, just because you did not like to be in the relationship anymore. It is not as simple as that in reality.

Another comment gave a hypothetical situation where you liked a bus, took a ride, and while in that bus, the one u wanted came at last, but you were already in a bus. What should you do then? Should you press stop right away, get off the bus, and try to get on the one you wanted originally? But what if the current bus that you are in is as good as the one you wanted? (not a lot of people, air-conditioned, new bus)

Likewise, what if the bus that you wanted and zoomed past you came back, while you were about to get in the bus that stopped when you flagged it? Which bus would you ride? 

What if there were 2 buses that came along at the same time, and both were in good condition… which would you choose?

Makes you think, eh?

As for me, I’m just enjoying the ride… for now.