And lately I've had to spend an atrocious amount of my precious little time on buses and like most other passengers(when you spend so much time on freaking bus and your brains are rattled I think that's what everyone should be doing though I can't be sure) I observe every detail about every random person I can. I mentally appreciate and criticise the shoes and the bags and the clothes and the phones. I judge them by every little thing they do and imagine what the lives of these random people must be like. I wonder if we'll ever cross paths again and if we did will we know that we crossed once earlier. I wonder how if something out of the ordinary were to happen, some accident, some mishap how it would bind a few random strangers who had been brought on to the same bus(or train for that matter but I'll just mention buses for now) by chance.
But what amuses and baffles me more than all these things is the way these passengers of chance react to each other. Even though I don't know a single one of them and it hardly is a matter of importance I make sure that I find an empty seat with noone near even if that means walking to the end of the bus. I don't even understand why. And you know what. That is exactly what most of the other people do (except for the old ones coz they can barely stand and so can't afford to be picky). Everytime we're put in places with random people I don't know why we tend to pull away. For instance lifts!! You can't but look at the person with you in a 4x4 area yet the shifty eyes because not really proper etiquette to stare at someone though you could steal looks every now and then since we know it can't be helped.
I'm not sure if its me or an Asian thing to do or what. But I fail to understand the reason for the behaviour. I'd rather be a jackass in front of someone who doesn't know me at all and who I might never see again then someone I know right?? Or not perhaps. I don't know.
