“You’re beautiful” could either turn your guts inside out or transform your journey in the train forever. Despising how men are always looking at the fairer gender and playing with images in their mind; or setting you up to long for that special “moment that will last to the end”.
But unless you’re James Blunt, people-looking aint exactly the favourite past-time on the public transport for many. Sans those who have a travel companion and are happily yakking, it’s been my quiet suspicion that people do not really know where to put their eyes when in the bus or train.
She was looking out of the window throughout the journey- perhaps observing life on the move, but likely to just be staring into space.
He played with his phone without lifting his eyes from it once- perhaps there were that many sms’s he had to send, or maybe his game did last well through the journey.
It might be a good use of time, but pretty sure he finds relief in being able to bury his head in the book/magazine/newspaper.
The program on Mobile TV might be really interesting, but even a repeat telecast will serve her well.
Some have bionic eyes to see right through people and objects, staring intently ahead with a very straight face.
And there are those who might be sleeping, but have so trained their biological clock to wake up just at the right stop.
All to prevent at all cost the awkward moment of having to meet the stranger in the eye.
It’s not that I have not done any of the above- in fact I’ve tried all of the above on different occassions.
But I remember how it made my day to have a smile returned to me. A strange nostalgia warming up inside, to contemplate having had a brief moment in another’s life by sharing a short bus-ride conversation.
Don’t be afraid to look at a stranger in the eye and give a smile.
When your eyes meet another’s on the bus, do not be too quick to fleet it away. Smile. Some may not return it, some may give a bewildered look, some may take an ego trip on it. But when someone returns it, you know you’ll do it again.
1 comment:
Haha. We are so guilty of these dsyfunctional behaviour! But heh, at least we don't turn on our handphone in the speaker mode and blast the latest Jolin "Chao Ah Lïan" Tsai's latest hit. I am *@#$ by the youths who do this on trains/ buses.
Of cos I will give a big smile and tell them off! haha!
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