Please pass the kindness.

I love when you meet just a regular person who just inspires you.  They say the simplest thing, something they probably said to themselves a bunch of times before actually excepting it as the truth.  It probably took them awhile to realize it and life experiences had to come forth before they could even begin to  understand the life that was unraveling before them.

Today this blog entry is inspired by my bus driver who was not only very entertaining and funny but had such a wise aurora about him.  Being a bus driver in NYC is not easy especially with us commuters. We are constantly in an uproar of the time it takes us to commute and if there is traffic we are doubly pissed.  Don't even get me started on if it rains.

This is why many  bus drivers get very bitter after working so many years. They are annoyed by the commuters, the NYC cabs, MTA bus drivers and the insane truck drivers. It's always easy to let the world swallow you and become part of the angry world. It's hard to wake up everyday and fight the sorrows, the complacent and heck even the plain ol' bad luck. (really that mirror had to fall off the door and break on me!) but now and then you will find the strong willed, the people who fight against the masses, who takes the lemons and make lemonades. These people inspire me to work through my "first world problems" and look at the bigger picture. To continue on my journey to spread goodness and happiness.  They make me strong.

My morning bus driver goes out of his way to say good morning to every passenger and send them off with a "good day" and "have a safe day".  Even though many people walk right passed him and ignore him he doesn't mind because someone like me will say "Thank you and have a good day as well"

I feel as if these simple people have found the meaning of life - spread the goodness and leave an impact on even the smallest of people, in hopes they will pay it forward. And maybe that is how this world will change through small acts of kindness.

-Britt

Quotes from the bus drivers: 

"Oh No Problem Man. If I was me I would like for someone to tell me. . .just doing what's right"

"Let me tell you, no matter if I have a job or don't have a job - I'm living and breathing and that in itself is a blessing"

"You know I don't hold it against him.  What's in the past is in the past"