Bus Talk

There was a time I was alone in a bus. It was a Sunday afternoon, and literally, no one else was inside the Tas Trans Bus I was riding.

I quietly sat in front and listenned to the drayber and konduktor talk with each other.

May I share their conversation with you?

What? Is that a yes? Okay then! (hahaha, no one seems to be visiting this blog, except for "anonymous" anyway, I'll keep typing to myself. I haven't been keeping count of the counter if numbers are being added.. hahahaha)

Here it is with parenthetical translations for foreigners who got lost in this blog. This is not the exact conversation. It's the ideas that stay.

Konduktor : "Natikman mo na ba yung bayawak?" ("Have you tried eating a monitor lizard?")

Drayber: "Oo. Masarap yun pag inihaw" (Yeah. It's good if grilled")
" Sa amin, ilalabas ng mga kapitbahay yung mga aso, tapos pupunta sila sa gubat. Aamuyin lang nila, makakahuli sila ng marami ta's iihawin sa gabi." ("In our place, my neighbors would let their dogs sniff for those lizards and they'd have barbeque that night.")

Wow, I thought. Dogs looking for monitor lizards so that the owners would have a barbeque party during the night. What a unique way to have dinner.

Then, some passengers went inside, and I wasn't alone anymore. But, I still felt alone while looking at the gloomy Las Piñas landscape of pawnshops and wet gutters. Sigh. I was happier while I was listenning to conversations that really don't mean much to me. Las Piñas doesn't really mean much to anyone I guess. Even to those who live in it. It is the little meaningless things that make a city meaningful-- that make any life meaningful.

Meaningless stuff lead to a meaningful life? Sounds stupid to me too, but by "meaningless things" I mean "things with meaning, only, they have less amounts of meaning" and by "meaning" I mean "a thing that needs a good reason for happening/ existing/ being done". But put meaningless things all together, they make one heck of a happy life.

Examples of "meaningless" elements in the world: funny conversations, new animal-ceramic-figurines from lolo or lola, corny text jokes, pimples, C2, Sprite, Ford, Tambunting Pawnshop, old erasers, lost ballpens, stickers, faulty internet connections, pretty girls who turn heads, good looking guys who always turn their heads, average-looking people who never turn heads but always turn their heads, dinosaurs in the Philippines (there are none discovered yet I think...), cooking shows that make your mouth water...too bad you can't taste the TV screen, korean actresses and actors who portray korean princesses and business heirs, etc.

Individually , they will never give World Peace. But what the heck, meaningless things/circumstances/whatever make us smile sometimes. Right? Is that a yes? haha I'm typing to myself again. Thanks for reading!!!