BOSSES AND BUSES

What kept us going for folks like us before was the thought that there were buses roaming around to

and fro our villages to take us to the city and back.  The transport service business ran for a number of years during my childhood, adolescence, teenage, college up almost to my adult years.  I don't know what happened to the buses, the drivers and the conductors. They must have gone too far and reached the space. Haha.  

I can still remember the first few days we  rode with the busses to and from school.  There was one that was called the SPACESTAR.  It was airconditioned and the seats were cozy.  We get to see and  meet

almost everyone from town.  And some of the drivers were unusually friendly as well. Among the 

famous drivers were "Nong Bert", "Nong Dodong", and "Saddam".  Haha

In our teenage years, we also found our ways reaching out for a cassette tape to send to the driver, to have it played while riding on the bus.  And everyone inside will hear your playlist as we ride along.  On to the college  years we always find our way for home knowing that  a friendly bus would take us home everyday.

And we get to see everyone who lives in our town through the buses. And of course, when some of our neighbors got  to ride in their on private cars, we opted for the bus.

Now the buses are gone. It seemed that the buses took our souls along.  Now, the trips have long gone, empty, like a railway train derailed and left hanging beside the driveways. No more bus stations, no more bus dreams.  Now that there's lots of jeepneys, pedicabs, taxis, and motorcycles, and privileged private,  restored, new, company and government owned royalty cars I still preferred the comfort of riding the humble bus.\

Are we now making way for the choo choo train?  Hehe

ISOLATION

Something has happened.  And it's too much of a bore to need investigation. Everybody seems to want to go home now.  They must have saved a lot of goods, things, and skills, away from home.  They missed home so much, now they badly needed a reason to stay home.  So there's a theory.  Something you might find yourself asserting from. 

But home really wasn't that kind.  So we needed this isolation.  Some ideas to keep peers, friends, and annoying relatives away from.  To keep a certain distance, to stay away, some space so to speak.  Social media has made it possible to almost keep track of everyone without having to meet or see them in the flesh.  No shaking of hands, no kissing on the cheeks, no exchanging of hands to send and to receive.  Instead, we have these cellphones in each of our desired rooms in isolation.   

We didn't need the germs, the extra burden.  We didn't need the virus, the influence, influenza, the influential.  We didn't need to be taught some more, we have information about this and that.  If we have questions, we can find them online.   Nurses, doctors at their usuals selves.  We now have facemasks.  And we have several acronyms to choose from.  The outsiders need to have some kind of pass to go to and fro,  And it apparently happens all over the world.