A thought

Strange things move you when you’re out of your safe zone.

Sometimes it’s a phrase someone says to you.

Sometimes a smell.

Today I was on the Metro coming home from my Spanish class. Crowded no, but busy. I stood in the middle of car where there was no wall to lean on. This is a problem when the bus moves and makes it hard to keep from falling. Around me were business men and a pair of girls having a flirt session with a of pair boys on the opposite side of the car. I was trying to keep from being annoyed, not knowing what to do with myself, having completed my one task for the day. I wasn’t feeling sad, maybe frustrated or just lonely. Looking up I saw my stop was next. As the train slowly came to a stop I lifted the handle to open the door. Suddenly I was hit with a scent. Out of place and without context it made me inhale deeply, something one normally does not try to do while in the Metro. For a moment I was wrapped in the perfume of my mom’s sun tea, fresh off the porch poured over ice and with a dash of sugar. Where it came from I do not know but it left a smile as it faded into the stale metro air.

Sometimes the simplest things make life easier.